PHYSICIAN

Virginia Apgar

1909 - 1974

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Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909 – August 7, 1974) was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Apgar has received more than 1,713,852 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Virginia Apgar is the 41st most popular physician (up from 122nd in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from United States (up from 972nd in 2019) and the most popular American Physician.

Virginia Apgar was a doctor who developed the Apgar score, a scale for measuring the health of newborns. The Apgar score is used to assess the baby's health in the first few minutes after birth.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Virginia Apgar ranks 41 out of 726. Before her are Marcello Malpighi, Alexis Carrel, Thutmose IV, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Polycarp. After her are Emil Kraepelin, Ambroise Paré, Hua Tuo, Samuel Hahnemann, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Christiaan Eijkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Virginia Apgar ranks 14. Before her are Peter Drucker, Victor Borge, U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Mohammed V of Morocco. After her are Andrei Gromyko, Talal of Jordan, Stanislaw Ulam, Elia Kazan, Li Xiannian, and Isaiah Berlin. Among people deceased in 1974, Virginia Apgar ranks 14. Before her are James Chadwick, Vittorio De Sica, Pär Lagerkvist, U Thant, Baldur von Schirach, and Duke Ellington. After her are Imre Lakatos, Julius Evola, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, and Jacob L. Moreno.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virginia Apgar ranks 374 out of 20,380. Before her are Jefferson Davis (1808), Harry Nilsson (1941), Harvey Keitel (1939), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Robert Peary (1856). After her are Paulette Goddard (1910), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Rock Hudson (1925), Mickey Rourke (1952), and O. Henry (1862).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Virginia Apgar ranks 1. After her are Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), William P. Murphy (1892), Ferid Murad (1936), Stanley Cohen (1922), George Minot (1885), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), William T. G. Morton (1819), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Jonas Salk (1914), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895).

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