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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 282,258 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Thomas Addison is the 246th most popular physician (down from 236th in 2019), the 1,301st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,268th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Addison ranks 246 out of 502Before him are Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Thomas Bartholin, Carl Ludwig, Torsten Wiesel, François Magendie, and Philipp Franz von Siebold. After him are August Oetker, Adolf Eugen Fick, Constantine the African, Vladimir Dal, Peter Agre, and Karl Adolph von Basedow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Thomas Addison ranks 16Before him are Radama I, Michel Chasles, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dost Mohammad Khan, Charles Paul de Kock, and Sam Houston. After him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Princess Caroline of Denmark, Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, Baldomero Espartero, and George Green. Among people deceased in 1860, Thomas Addison ranks 17Before him are William Walker, István Széchenyi, Julia Pastrana, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, and George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Ang Duong, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 1,301 out of 7,765Before him are Barbara Cartland (1901), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Alexander of Hales (1175), Michael Redgrave (1908), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), and Martin Lowry (1874). After him are Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Janick Gers (1957), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wat Tyler (1341), Brenda Blethyn (1946), and Steven Gerrard (1980).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 19Before him are Thomas Willis (1621), Hans Sloane (1660), James Black (1924), James Lind (1716), Edward Bach (1886), and Thomas Hodgkin (1798). After him are Robert Darwin (1766), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Lorna Wing (1928), John Hunter (1728), Clarke Abel (1780), and Cicely Saunders (1918).