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William Hunter

1718 - 1783

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William Hunter (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hunter has received more than 17,639 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William Hunter is the 446th most popular physician (up from 463rd in 2019), the 2,476th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,774th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Physician.

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  • 18k

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  • 51.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Hunter ranks 446 out of 726. Before him are Dorotea Bucca, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Diocles of Carystus, Peter C. Doherty, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, and Bernard de Jussieu. After him are Giovanni Battista Grassi, Eva Klein, Constantin von Economo, Harry Seeley, Crawford Long, and Frances Oldham Kelsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, William Hunter ranks 18. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Antoine de Chézy, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix. After him are George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Israel Putnam, Elizabeth Montagu, John Roebuck, and Hugh Blair. Among people deceased in 1783, William Hunter ranks 16. Before him are Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Johann Jakob Bodmer, and Christian Mayer. After him are Ignaz Holzbauer, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Capability Brown, and Alexander Ablesimov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hunter ranks 2,476 out of 8,785. Before him are Geoff Bent (1932), John Alcock (1892), Mary Ann Bevan (1874), Sally Hawkins (1976), Barbara Hepworth (1903), and David Seaman (1963). After him are David C. H. Austin (1926), Eric Porter (1928), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Würzel (1949), Liam Payne (1993), and Bernard Fox (1927).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Hunter ranks 34. Before him are James Braid (1795), Robert Darwin (1766), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), and William Gull (1816). After him are Harry Seeley (1839), Robert Liston (1794), John Crawfurd (1783), James Young Simpson (1811), Richard Bright (1789), and Rutherford Alcock (1809).

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