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Robin Cook

1940 - Today

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Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes largely about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is known best for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Cook has received more than 1,194,944 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Robin Cook is the 137th most popular physician (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 958th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Physician.

Robin Cook is most famous for his medical thrillers.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robin Cook ranks 137 out of 502Before him are Francysk Skaryna, Frederick Griffith, Charles Brenton Huggins, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Jens Christian Skou, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Agnodice, Mungo Park, Ulf von Euler, Theodor Billroth, and Georgios Papanikolaou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Robin Cook ranks 74Before him are Dennis Tito, Roberto Cavalli, Abdurrahman Wahid, Burt Young, Fatema Mernissi, and Bruce Chatwin. After him are Milena Dravić, Gudrun Ensslin, Lance Henriksen, Marlène Jobert, James Brolin, and John Gotti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 1,100 out of 18,182Before him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), Larry Page (1973), Bob Kahn (1938), and George Stinney (1929). After him are Hattie McDaniel (1893), Tom Berenger (1949), Brooke Shields (1965), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Mary Ainsworth (1913), and Harry Dean Stanton (1926).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 13Before him are George Minot (1885), Ferid Murad (1936), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Virginia Apgar (1909), and Joseph Murray (1919). After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Louis Ignarro (1941), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and Joseph Erlanger (1874).