PHYSICIAN

Walter Reed

1851 - 1902

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Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 23, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States. Reed followed work started by Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg, who has been called the "first U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Reed has received more than 950,218 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Walter Reed is the 610th most popular physician (down from 532nd in 2019), the 7,822nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,693rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Walter Reed ranks 610 out of 726Before him are Tomisaku Kawasaki, Astley Cooper, Arvo Ylppö, Stuart Kauffman, Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, and Nadezhda Suslova. After him are Georgi Valkovich, Dorothy Hansine Andersen, Giovanni Saldarini, Homa Darabi, Halfdan T. Mahler, and Emily Blackwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Walter Reed ranks 90Before him are Spiru Haret, William Mitchell Ramsay, Karl Moritz Schumann, Ekaterine Gabashvili, William Quan Judge, and Rainer Ludwig Claisen. After him are Manuel Curros Enríquez, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Herbert Lawford, Juan Gualberto González, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack. Among people deceased in 1902, Walter Reed ranks 74Before him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Richard Leach Maddox, Johannes Wislicenus, Emil Holub, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, and Frank Norris. After him are Almon Brown Strowger, Franz Sigel, Lőrinc Schlauch, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, Hans von Pechmann, and William McGonagall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Reed ranks 7,822 out of 20,380Before him are David S. Goyer (1965), Randy Edelman (1947), Arthur Crudup (1905), John Carmack (1970), Raymond E. Brown (1928), and Daniel Henney (1979). After him are George Thorogood (1950), Richie Ramone (1957), Jeff Sessions (1946), Cathy Ferguson (1948), Brian Setzer (1959), and Nino (null).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Walter Reed ranks 72Before him are Ellen S. Baker (1953), Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), John Jeffries (1745), John Ostrom (1928), Harry Klinefelter (1912), and Stuart Kauffman (1939). After him are Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Jill Stein (1950), William C. Gorgas (1854), William H. Welch (1850), Robert Atkins (1930), and Edward Angle (1855).