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William C. Gorgas

1854 - 1920

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William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases, for which he used the discoveries made by the Cuban doctor Carlos J. Finlay. At first, Finlay's strategy was greeted with considerable skepticism and opposition to such hygiene measures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William C. Gorgas has received more than 226,002 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William C. Gorgas is the 626th most popular physician (down from 573rd in 2019), the 8,205th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,537th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Physician.

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  • 2.93

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William C. Gorgas ranks 626 out of 726. Before him are Concepción Aleixandre, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Maurice Raynaud, Jill Stein, Peter Lesgaft, and Fernando Quiroga Palacios. After him are María Teresa Ferrari, William H. Welch, Anders Tegnell, Andrea Andreen, Harry Benjamin, and Fidel Pagés.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, William C. Gorgas ranks 113. Before him are Gottlieb Haberlandt, Heinrich Kreutz, Hermann Oldenberg, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Joseph Jacobs, and Francis Marion Crawford. After him are Dukinfield Henry Scott, Ernest Belfort Bax, Rafael López Gutiérrez, Jan Sztolcman, Hjalmar Mellin, and Queenie Newall. Among people deceased in 1920, William C. Gorgas ranks 117. Before him are Max Fürbringer, Hermann Oldenberg, Ludwig Ganghofer, Edmund Reitter, Mary Katharine Brandegee, and Arthur Johnson. After him are Benigno Ferreira, Otto Bütschli, Federigo Tozzi, Ferdinand Feyerick, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, and Albert Zürner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William C. Gorgas ranks 8,205 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), Arthur Lee (1945), Kaitlyn Ashley (1971), Jordan Peele (1979), Lynn Collins (1977), and Russi Taylor (1944). After him are Jackson Scholz (1897), Sam Simon (1955), A. J. Foyt (1935), Roy Estrada (1943), Diana Lynn (1926), and C. Thomas Howell (1966).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William C. Gorgas ranks 75. Before him are John Ostrom (1928), Harry Klinefelter (1912), Stuart Kauffman (1939), Walter Reed (1851), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), and Jill Stein (1950). After him are William H. Welch (1850), Robert Atkins (1930), Edward Angle (1855), Denton Cooley (1920), Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878), and John Heysham Gibbon (1903).

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