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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. 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

Among biologists, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 284 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 98Before 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 96Before 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.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 809 out of 3,262Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Demikhov ranks 10Before 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).