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William Beaumont

1785 - 1853

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William Beaumont (November 21, 1785 – April 25, 1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Beaumont has received more than 450,656 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Beaumont is the 578th most popular physician (down from 489th in 2019), the 6,755th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,694th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Physician.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Beaumont ranks 578 out of 726. Before him are Florence R. Sabin, Richard Leach Maddox, John Arbuthnot, Hélène Sparrow, Napoleon Cybulski, and Emil Holub. After him are Madeleine Pelletier, Willem Piso, William Stukeley, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, and Gregorio Marañón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, William Beaumont ranks 49. Before him are Martín Miguel de Güemes, János Scitovszky, Abel de Pujol, Karol Kurpiński, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, and David Wilkie. After him are Ján Hollý, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Arvid August Afzelius, Oliver Hazard Perry, Thomas Love Peacock, and Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt. Among people deceased in 1853, William Beaumont ranks 47. Before him are Cesare Balbo, William R. King, Lucas Alamán, Andrés Narvarte, Tabitha Babbitt, and Abigail Fillmore. After him are Ditlev Blunck, Joseph von Radowitz, Manuel María Lombardini, Melchior von Diepenbrock, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, and Tommaso Grossi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Beaumont ranks 6,755 out of 20,380. Before him are Tabitha King (1949), Paul Whiteman (1890), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Edie McClurg (1951), Memphis Slim (1915), and Patty Murray (1950). After him are Ashley Tisdale (1985), Orville Gibson (1856), Rick Baker (1950), Patrick Kilpatrick (1949), Edgar Adams (1868), and Walter Catlett (1889).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William Beaumont ranks 65. Before him are Thomas Horsfield (1773), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Ancel Keys (1904), Bernard Nathanson (1926), Russell M. Nelson (1924), and Florence R. Sabin (1871). After him are Ellen S. Baker (1953), Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), John Jeffries (1745), John Ostrom (1928), Harry Klinefelter (1912), and Stuart Kauffman (1939).

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