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Adam Zamenhof

1888 - 1940

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Adam Zamenhof (1888 – 29 January 1940) was a Polish physician known for his work on ophthalmology. He was the son of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto. Before the Holocaust, Zamenhof had invented a device to check blind spots in the field of vision. During World War II, 6 September 1939, he was head of the Starozakonnych Hospital in Warsaw, and its director. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Zamenhof is the 572nd most popular physician (down from 539th in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from Poland (down from 908th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Adam Zamenhof ranks 572 out of 726. Before him are Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Adolf Meyer, Sunao Tawara, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, and Napoleon Cybulski. After him are Jeffrey Ullman, Arnold Pick, Karin Büttner-Janz, Borzuya, Özlem Türeci, and Eugene Lazowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Adam Zamenhof ranks 182. Before him are Alfred Landé, Juan Antonio Ríos, Jean Bouin, J. B. Kripalani, Marie Rambert, and Raquel Meller. After him are Tom Phillips, Kiichiro Higuchi, Paul Niggli, Fritz Schäffer, Walther von Wartburg, and Vasyl Barvinsky. Among people deceased in 1940, Adam Zamenhof ranks 142. Before him are Heinrich Kayser, Janne Lundblad, Juan Carreño, David Hammond, Ervin Mészáros, and Gheorghe Argeșanu. After him are Ameen Rihani, Einar Benediktsson, Otto Toeplitz, Nathanael West, Martti Marttelin, and Edgar Adams.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Zamenhof ranks 937 out of 1,694. Before him are Martin Gray (1922), Fritz Stern (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tommy Wiseau (1955), and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925). After him are Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Adam Asnyk (1838), Jan T. Gross (1947), and Bolesław Leśmian (1877).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Adam Zamenhof ranks 19. Before him are Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Max Gerson (1881). After him are Eugene Lazowski (1913), Ludwig Traube (1818), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), Bernhard Zondek (1891), and Joseph Schröter (1837).

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