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William Harvey

1578 - 1657

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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Harvey has received more than 1,959,610 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia. William Harvey is the 13th most popular physician, the 98th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 97th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Physician.

William Harvey is most famous for his work on the circulatory system. He discovered that blood circulates through the body in a closed loop, and he described the function of the heart and the valves in the circulatory system.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Harvey ranks 13 out of 726. Before him are Josef Mengele, Edward Jenner, L. L. Zamenhof, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, and Albert Schweitzer. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Michael Servetus, Cesare Lombroso, Cyril of Alexandria, Alois Alzheimer, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1578, William Harvey ranks 3. Before him are Philip III of Spain, and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are François Ravaillac, Francesco Albani, Adam Elsheimer, Fede Galizia, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Agostino Tassi, Benedetto Castelli, and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. Among people deceased in 1657, William Harvey ranks 1. After him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Frans Snyders, Balthasar van der Ast, Clara Peeters, Kâtip Çelebi, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Jacob van Campen, Laura Mancini, Andrew Bobola, and Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Harvey ranks 98 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward III of England (1312), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeff Beck (1944), Walter Scott (1771), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), and Paul Dirac (1902). After him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), David Livingstone (1813), Edward Elgar (1857), Jane Seymour (1508), Christopher Lee (1922), and Liam Neeson (1952).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Harvey ranks 2. Before him are Edward Jenner (1749). After him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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