1916 - 1998
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. This ultimately led to the head transplants in monkeys by Dr. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Demikhov has received more than 823,800 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Demikhov is the 284th most popular biologist (up from 328th in 2019), the 809th most popular biography from Russia (up from 818th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Biologist.
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Among biologists, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 284 out of 841. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt. After him are Pierre Edmond Boissier, Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, Othenio Abel, and René Louiche Desfontaines.
1718 - 1790
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 278
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 279
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 280
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 281
1794 - 1868
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 282
1802 - 1879
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 283
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 284
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 285
1815 - 1883
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 286
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 287
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 288
1875 - 1946
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 289
1750 - 1833
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 290
Among people born in 1916, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 98. Before him are James Herriot, Alexey Maresyev, Chiang Fang-liang, Chiang Wei-kuo, Betty Grable, and Amha Selassie. After him are Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Anthony Dawson, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Manea Mănescu, Benjamin Libet, and Pietro Rava. Among people deceased in 1998, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 96. Before him are Christian Mortensen, Zbigniew Herbert, Birger Ruud, Shinichi Suzuki, Nguyễn Văn Linh, and Lucio Battisti. After him are Richard Hamming, Clara Rockmore, Hans von Ohain, Archie Moore, Slava Metreveli, and Nino Ferrer.
1916 - 1995
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 92
1916 - 2001
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 93
1916 - 2004
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 94
1916 - 1997
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 95
1916 - 1973
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 96
1916 - 1997
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 97
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 98
1916 - 1994
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 99
1916 - 1992
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 100
1916 - 2006
HPI: 54.07
Rank: 101
1916 - 2009
HPI: 54.07
Rank: 102
1916 - 2007
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 103
1916 - 2006
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 104
1882 - 1998
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 90
1924 - 1998
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 91
1911 - 1998
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 92
1898 - 1998
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 93
1915 - 1998
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 94
1943 - 1998
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 95
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 96
1915 - 1998
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 97
1911 - 1998
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 98
1911 - 1998
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 99
1916 - 1998
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 100
1936 - 1998
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 101
1934 - 1998
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 102
Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 809 out of 3,262. Before him are Sergei Nilus (1862), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Anatoli Papanov (1922), and Franz Schlegelberger (1876). After him are Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), and Ulugh Muhammad (1405).
1862 - 1929
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 803
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 804
1932 - 2009
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 805
1528 - 1583
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 806
1922 - 1987
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 807
1876 - 1970
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 808
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 809
1902 - 1960
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 810
1857 - 1944
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 811
1843 - 1917
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 812
1935 - 2017
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 813
1939 - Present
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 814
1405 - 1445
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 815
Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 10. Before him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), and Alexander von Middendorff (1815). After him are Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Franz Meyen (1804), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), and Nikolay Drozdov (1937).
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 4
1864 - 1920
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 5
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 6
1810 - 1881
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 7
1870 - 1932
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 8
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 9
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 10
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 11
1843 - 1920
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 12
1799 - 1878
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 13
1804 - 1840
HPI: 48.66
Rank: 14
1871 - 1906
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 15
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 16