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William Stewart Halsted

1852 - 1922

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William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor of Medicine), Howard Atwood Kelly (Professor of Gynecology) and William H. Welch (Professor of Pathology), Halsted was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital is in Ward G, and was described as a small room where medical discoveries and miracles took place. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Stewart Halsted has received more than 1,125,964 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Stewart Halsted is the 407th most popular physician (up from 411th in 2019), the 3,887th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,185th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Physician.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

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  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stewart Halsted ranks 407 out of 726. Before him are Andrew Yao, Ron Wyatt, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Rufus of Ephesus, Paul Julius Möbius, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. After him are Alfonso López Trujillo, Paul Neumann, René Favaloro, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, and Scipione Riva-Rocci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Stewart Halsted ranks 65. Before him are Jean-Louis Forain, Dục Đức, Kodama Gentarō, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Robert Hausmann, and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo. After him are Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Moritz von Auffenberg, Charles Villiers Stanford, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Émile Fayolle, and Mikoláš Aleš. Among people deceased in 1922, William Stewart Halsted ranks 77. Before him are Luigi Denza, Christiaan de Wet, Felip Pedrell, Ricardo Flores Magón, Bahaeddin Şakir, and Viktor Kingissepp. After him are Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Kabayama Sukenori, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, William J. Seymour, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, and Nikolai Nebogatov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 3,887 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Libet (1916), Ron Rivest (1947), Olivia Rodrigo (2003), Mimsy Farmer (1945), Greg Kinnear (1963), and Ira Sprague Bowen (1898). After him are Paul Reiser (1957), John Marley (1907), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Ted Williams (1918), Lenny Bruce (1925), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 45. Before him are Mehmet Oz (1960), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), and Philip Showalter Hench (1896). After him are Harvey Cushing (1869), Helen B. Taussig (1898), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Crawford Long (1815), Charles Best (1899), and Fernando J. Corbató (1926).

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