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Thomas Addison

1793 - 1860

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Thomas Addison (April 1795 – 29 June 1860) was an English physician and medical researcher. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London. Thomas Addison began his career at Guy's Hospital in 1817, eventually becoming a full physician in 1837. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Addison has received more than 304,200 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Addison is the 282nd most popular physician (down from 246th in 2019), the 1,459th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,297th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Physician.

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  • 300k

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  • 56.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Addison ranks 282 out of 726. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, Leonid Kulik, Vera Weizmann, Saint Fabiola, and Thomas Hodgkin. After him are Bronisława Dłuska, Guillaume Dupuytren, Podalirius, Vincenz Priessnitz, Henry Gray, and Drew Weissman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Thomas Addison ranks 19. Before him are Karl Lachmann, Sam Houston, Radama I, Charles Paul de Kock, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, and Philipp Veit. After him are Princess Caroline of Denmark, Baldomero Espartero, Dost Mohammad Khan, George Green, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, and Pavel Pestel. Among people deceased in 1860, Thomas Addison ranks 20. Before him are William Walker, Ang Duong, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Carl Ritter von Ghega, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Ernst Moritz Arndt. After him are Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Ii Naosuke, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 1,459 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Sandie Shaw (1947), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Martin Freeman (1971), Joss Ackland (1928), and Thomas Hodgkin (1798). After him are Claire Bloom (1931), Simon Stock (1164), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Sean Harris (1966), Elihu Thomson (1853), and Robert Stephenson (1803).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 21. Before him are Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Cicely Saunders (1918), and Thomas Hodgkin (1798). After him are Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Sydenham (1624), John Latham (1740), Lorna Wing (1928), William Cullen (1710), and Clarke Abel (1780).

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