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Thomas Willis

1621 - 1675

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Thomas Willis FRS (27 January 1621 – 11 November 1675) was an English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry, and was a founding member of the Royal Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Willis has received more than 225,270 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Willis is the 208th most popular physician (down from 176th in 2019), the 1,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 925th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Physician.

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  • 230k

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  • 59.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Willis ranks 208 out of 726. Before him are Bernardino Ramazzini, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Asclepiades of Bithynia, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Li Shizhen, and David H. Hubel. After him are Ernst-Günther Schenck, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, August Oetker, Mungo Park, Adolf Eugen Fick, and Fritz Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Thomas Willis ranks 5. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, Louis, Grand Condé, Amakusa Shirō, and George II Rákóczi. After him are Petar Zrinski, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Allaert van Everdingen, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, and Shi Lang. Among people deceased in 1675, Thomas Willis ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Vermeer, Gerrit Dou, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and James Gregory. After him are Gilles de Roberval, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Leopoldo de' Medici, and Gaspard Dughet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Willis ranks 1,061 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Bell (1837), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Ron Dennis (1947), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), Frank Lloyd (1886), and Stephen Boyd (1931). After him are Frank Oz (1944), William Smith (1769), Isabella Bird (1831), David Hamilton (1933), Cozy Powell (1947), and Nicko McBrain (1952).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Willis ranks 14. Before him are Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and Hans Sloane (1660). After him are Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Cicely Saunders (1918), and Thomas Hodgkin (1798).

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