BIOLOGIST

Vladimir Demikhov

1916 - 1998

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Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (Russian: Владимир Петрович Демихов; 31 July 1916 – 22 November 1998) was a Soviet Russian scientist and organ transplantation pioneer, who performed several transplants in the 1940s and 1950s, including the transplantation of a heart into an animal and a heart–lung replacement in an animal. He is also well known for his dog head transplants, which he conducted during the 1950s, resulting in two-headed dogs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Demikhov has received more than 897,495 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vladimir Demikhov is the 236th most popular biologist (up from 283rd in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Russia (up from 807th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 236 out of 1,097. Before him are Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Ludwik Fleck, Carl Gustav Carus, and Howard Martin Temin. After him are Nehemiah Grew, Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 80. Before him are Archduke Felix of Austria, Pietro Rava, Mika Špiljak, Walt Whitman Rostow, Pérez Prado, and Ray Conniff. After him are José Manuel Moreno, Ramón José Velásquez, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Shirley Jackson, Pierre Messmer, and Jane Jacobs. Among people deceased in 1998, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 75. Before him are George Wallace, Frithjof Schuon, Lucio Battisti, Momoko Kōchi, Ted Hughes, and Remo Giazotto. After him are Shotaro Ishinomori, Don Taylor, Zbigniew Herbert, Efim Geller, César Baldaccini, and László Szabó.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 635 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Vasily Shukshin (1929), Viktor Chernov (1873), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), and Caran d'Ache (1858). After him are Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Oleg Popov (1930), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 8. Before him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), and Nikolay Pirogov (1810). After him are Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), and Edwin Klebs (1834).

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