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Walter Reed

1851 - 1902

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Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 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 895,637 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walter Reed is the 533rd most popular physician (down from 466th in 2019), the 6,707th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,934th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Physician.

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  • 46.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Walter Reed ranks 533 out of 502. Before him are Friedrich von Huene, John Arbuthnot, Paul Hermann, Joseph Schröter, Bidhan Chandra Roy, and Léon Jean Marie Dufour. After him are Akira Endo, Eva Klein, Thomas Erastus, Astley Cooper, Édouard Gagnon, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Walter Reed ranks 77. Before him are William Quan Judge, Spiru Haret, Gérard Leman, Maksim Kovalevsky, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, and Guillermo Billinghurst. After him are Manuel Curros Enríquez, Karl Moritz Schumann, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Ekaterine Gabashvili, and Arthur Schuster. Among people deceased in 1902, Walter Reed ranks 67. Before him are Gleb Uspensky, Richard Leach Maddox, Emil Holub, Aisha Taymur, Frank Norris, and Franz Sigel. After him are Johannes Wislicenus, William McGonagall, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Ludwig von Brenner, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, and John Henry Twachtman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Reed ranks 6,707 out of 18,182. Before him are Carl Blegen (1887), Hilary Duff (1987), Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933), Ruth Brown (1928), Big Show (1972), and Seth Gilliam (1968). After him are Dion DiMucci (1939), Pete Rademacher (1928), Patrick O'Neal (1927), Steven Millhauser (1943), Johnny Griffin (1928), and Bill O'Reilly (1949).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Walter Reed ranks 60. Before him are Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Ancel Keys (1904), William Beaumont (1785), Russell M. Nelson (1924), Florence R. Sabin (1871), and Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779). After him are Leila Denmark (1898), Robert Atkins (1930), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Thomas Horsfield (1773), Bernard Nathanson (1926), and John Jeffries (1745).

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