PHYSICIAN

Walter Jackson Freeman II

1895 - 1972

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Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy. Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure. The transorbital approach involved placing an orbitoclast (an instrument resembling an ice pick) under the eyelid and against the top of the eye socket; a mallet was then used to drive the orbitoclast through the thin layer of bone and into the brain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Jackson Freeman II has received more than 1,235,474 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Jackson Freeman II is the 374th most popular physician, the 3,466th most popular biography from United States and the 40th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Walter Jackson Freeman II ranks 374 out of 726. Before him are Bénédict Morel, Robert Remak, Claus Schilling, Hiraga Gennai, Karl Genzken, and Michael Maier. After him are Johann Kremer, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Prospero Alpini, Andrew Taylor Still, Jim Yong Kim, and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Walter Jackson Freeman II ranks 128. Before him are Susanne Langer, Trifko Grabež, Agop Dilâçar, Lucian Blaga, Jacques Brugnon, and Alfred Neuland. After him are Fulton J. Sheen, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Xu Beihong, Gustav Klutsis, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, and Gustav Lombard. Among people deceased in 1972, Walter Jackson Freeman II ranks 99. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Ivan Yefremov, Dan Blocker, Prince William of Gloucester, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, and Violette Leduc. After him are Lee Morgan, František Čáp, Mahendra of Nepal, Meena Kumari, Vladimir Durković, and Paul Grüninger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Jackson Freeman II ranks 3,466 out of 20,380. Before him are Gig Young (1913), Martin Ritt (1914), Sonny Landham (1941), Victoria Nuland (1961), Billy Blanks (1955), and Teresa Wright (1918). After him are David Blaine (1973), Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), Tyra Banks (1973), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Stephenie Meyer (1973), and Big Mama Thornton (1926).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Walter Jackson Freeman II ranks 40. Before him are Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), William Bates (1860), Anthony Fauci (1940), and Mehmet Oz (1960). After him are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), William Stewart Halsted (1852), and Harvey Cushing (1869).

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