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Torsten Wiesel

1924 - Today

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Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torsten Wiesel has received more than 265,003 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Torsten Wiesel is the 257th most popular physician (down from 243rd in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 245th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Physician.

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  • 57.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Torsten Wiesel ranks 257 out of 726. Before him are Sun Simiao, William Chester Minor, John O'Keefe, Edward Bach, Antonio Maria Valsalva, and Christian Bohr. After him are Carl Værnet, Irmfried Eberl, Édouard Séguin, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Joseph Škoda, and Leon Pinsker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Torsten Wiesel ranks 102. Before him are Noboru Takeshita, Marina Berti, Jozef Tomko, Richard Bull, Claude Sautet, and Fess Parker. After him are Danielle Mitterrand, Edward Cassidy, Daniel arap Moi, Jean Girault, Katy Jurado, and Stanley Donen.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torsten Wiesel ranks 269 out of 1,879. Before him are Jan-Ove Waldner (1965), Håkan Nesser (1950), Björn Waldegård (1943), Johann Patkul (1660), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), and Gideon Sundback (1880). After him are Torbern Bergman (1735), Harry Nyquist (1889), Joey Tempest (1963), Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Bruno Liljefors (1860), and Börje Salming (1951).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Sweden

Among physicians born in Sweden, Torsten Wiesel ranks 6. Before him are Allvar Gullstrand (1862), Ulf von Euler (1905), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Thomas Bartholin (1616), and Hans Rosling (1948). After him are Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), Anders Tegnell (1956), and Anna Bågenholm (1970).

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