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Sophia Jex-Blake

1840 - 1912

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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophia Jex-Blake has received more than 173,167 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sophia Jex-Blake is the 649th most popular physician (down from 572nd in 2019), the 4,564th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,273rd in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 649 out of 726. Before her are Almroth Wright, Paul Möhring, Eugène Olivier, Angeliki Panagiotatou, Dean Mahomed, and Lucille Teasdale-Corti. After her are Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, Divna Veković, John Heysham Gibbon, Bennet Omalu, James Ewing, and Narendra Dabholkar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 92. Before her are Franz Mertens, Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Jakub Arbes, American Horse, and Richard Knill Freeman. After her are Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Addington Symonds, and John Stainer. Among people deceased in 1912, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 126. Before her are Luis Cordero Crespo, Octavia Hill, Harriet Quimby, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edgar Evans, and Henry Sweet. After her are Emil Stang, Máximo Tajes, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Henry Robertson Bowers, Julio Herrera y Obes, and Albino Jara.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 4,564 out of 8,785. Before her are James Wyatt (1746), Richard Briers (1934), Walter de la Mare (1873), Chris Hughton (1958), Dave Finlay (1958), and Jack Davenport (1973). After her are Matthew Webb (1848), Dave Hill (1946), Scott Carson (1985), Emlyn Hughes (1947), Alan Kennedy (1954), and Cadwallon ap Cadfan (591).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 61. Before her are Emily Blackwell (1826), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Archie Cochrane (1909), George E. P. Box (1919), Thomas Lewis (1881), and Almroth Wright (1861). After her are Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Thomas C. Jerdon (1811), Ran Laurie (1915), Richard Doll (1912), Flora Murray (1869), and Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873).

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