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William Stokes

1804 - 1878

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William Stokes (1 October 1804 – 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician, who was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1825 later returning the practice in Dublin at Meath Hospital. He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837) and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Stokes has received more than 6,378 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Stokes is the 658th most popular physician, the 288th most popular biography from Ireland and the 4th most popular Irish Physician.

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  • 6.4k

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  • 44.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stokes ranks 658 out of 726. Before him are John Heysham Gibbon, Bennet Omalu, James Ewing, Narendra Dabholkar, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, and Mary Putnam Jacobi. After him are Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Harald Natvig, Yoshioka Yayoi, Thomas Starzl, Abraham Jacobi, and Thomas C. Jerdon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, William Stokes ranks 72. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Fruto Chamorro, William Barton Rogers, Emma Smith, and József Bajza. After him are Jane Irwin Harrison, Charles Magill Conrad, and Alexander Keith Johnston. Among people deceased in 1878, William Stokes ranks 68. Before him are George Back, Andrew Scott Waugh, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francisco Linares Alcántara, José Amador de los Ríos, and George Henry Lewes. After him are José María Medina, George Gilbert Scott, Gideon Welles, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Benjamin Bonneville, and Charles Magill Conrad.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Stokes ranks 288 out of 549. Before him are John A. Costello (1891), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), Peter Sutherland (1946), Tony Dunne (1941), Charlie McGettigan (1950), and Richard Mulcahy (1886). After him are Michael McElhatton (1963), Stephen Gately (1976), Liam O'Flaherty (1896), Albert Reynolds (1932), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), and Denis Irwin (1965).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ireland

Among physicians born in Ireland, William Stokes ranks 4. Before him are James Barry (1795), Joshua Pim (1869), and Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737).

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