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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 1,056,588 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William Stewart Halsted is the 412th most popular physician (down from 332nd in 2019), the 4,196th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,152nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stewart Halsted ranks 412 out of 502. Before him are John Latham, Vladimir Filatov, Hiroshi Nakajima, Bernard de Jussieu, Emil Aarestrup, and Kadambini Ganguly. After him are James Braid, Fernando J. Corbató, William Gull, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Oskar Minkowski, and Kiyoshi Shiga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Stewart Halsted ranks 67. Before him are Bruno Abakanowicz, Émile Fayolle, Moritz von Auffenberg, Charles Villiers Stanford, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg. After him are Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Francisco Moreno, Mikoláš Aleš, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz. Among people deceased in 1922, William Stewart Halsted ranks 79. Before him are Arthur Griffith, Kabayama Sukenori, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Otto Lehmann, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, and Oscar Hertwig. After him are Louis Duchesne, Henry Bataille, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max von Hausen, Patrick Manson, and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 4,196 out of 18,182. Before him are Frank Carlucci (1930), Roy Sullivan (1912), Jersey Joe Walcott (1914), John Mayer (1977), Billy Sheehan (1953), and Gary Burton (1943). After him are Michael Chang (1972), Horace Greeley (1811), Kathleen Battle (1948), Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Eddie Bracken (1915), and Kevin Durant (1988).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 47. Before him are James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Richard Axel (1946), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Crawford Long (1815), and William Kaelin Jr. (1957). After him are Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Mehmet Oz (1960), Vivien Thomas (1910), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), and Benjamin Rush (1745).

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