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Willem Piso

1611 - 1678

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Willem Piso (in Dutch Willem Pies, in Latin Gulielmus Piso, also called Guilherme Piso in Portuguese) (1611 in Leiden – 28 November 1678 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644, sponsored by count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Piso has received more than 34,287 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem Piso is the 580th most popular physician, the 761st most popular biography from Netherlands and the 18th most popular Dutch Physician.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Willem Piso ranks 580 out of 726. Before him are John Arbuthnot, Hélène Sparrow, Napoleon Cybulski, Emil Holub, William Beaumont, and Madeleine Pelletier. After him are William Stukeley, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Gregorio Marañón, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Willem Piso ranks 22. Before him are Henry Ireton, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Giancarlo de' Medici, Mary Dyer, Andreas Hammerschmidt, and John Pell.  Among people deceased in 1678, Willem Piso ranks 21. Before him are Antoine III de Gramont, Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena, and Andrew Marvell.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Piso ranks 761 out of 1,646. Before him are Regillio Simons (1973), Marleen Gorris (1948), Zara Whites (1968), Andries Jonker (1962), Greetje Kauffeld (1939), and Thomas van Erpe (1584). After him are Willem Bilderdijk (1756), Simone Simons (1985), Kees de Jager (1921), Johan Boskamp (1948), Hans van Mierlo (1931), and Fred Rutten (1962).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Willem Piso ranks 18. Before him are Petrus Camper (1722), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Wim Eijk (1953), Willem Johan Kolff (1911), Herman Snellen (1834), and Joep Lange (1954).

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