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Siddhartha Mukherjee

1970 - Today

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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among others. The book was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by Time magazine in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siddhartha Mukherjee has received more than 1,193,000 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Siddhartha Mukherjee is the 711th most popular physician (down from 608th in 2019), the 1,221st most popular biography from India (down from 1,020th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Physician.

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  • 22

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  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 711 out of 726. Before him are Bill Frist, Hayat Sindi, William Hewson, Fritz Klein, Fernando Simón, and Soumya Swaminathan. After him are David Shulkin, James Heilman, Atul Gawande, Ai Fen, Hinrich Romeike, and Suniti Solomon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 775. Before him are Fredrik Thordendal, Marc-Kevin Goellner, Fumitake Miura, Mark Kirchner, Heike Friedrich, and Yu Sun-bok. After him are Gaia Zucchi, Walt Dohrn, Sergei Mureiko, Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Aleksandr Beketov, and Louis Theroux.

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In India

Among people born in India, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 1,221 out of 1,861. Before him are Madhavi (1962), Adil Hussain (1963), Darshan Ranganathan (1941), Riteish Deshmukh (1978), Sai Paranjpye (1938), and Bob Woolmer (1948). After him are Harbhajan Singh (1980), Arjun Sarja (1962), N. Biren Singh (1961), Sanaya Irani (1983), Anupam Tripathi (1988), and Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 11. Before him are Dean Mahomed (1759), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Indira Nath (1938), Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), and Soumya Swaminathan (1959). After him are Suniti Solomon (1938).

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