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Adolf Meyer

1866 - 1950

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Adolf Meyer (September 13, 1866 – March 17, 1950) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1910–1941). He was president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1927–28 and was one of the most influential figures in psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. His focus on collecting detailed case histories on patients was one of the most prominent of his contributions. He oversaw the building and development of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in April 1913, making sure it was suitable for scientific research, training and treatment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Meyer is the 568th most popular physician (down from 500th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 409th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Adolf Meyer ranks 568 out of 726. Before him are Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, María Teresa Ferrari, Ludwig Aschoff, Guy Patin, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. After him are Sunao Tawara, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Napoleon Cybulski, Adam Zamenhof, Jeffrey Ullman, and Arnold Pick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Adolf Meyer ranks 116. Before him are Italo Santelli, Emiliano Figueroa, Sam Eyde, Carl Theodor Zahle, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, and Ludwig Aschoff. After him are Antonio Luna, Max Wien, Jimmy Ross, Tor Aulin, Gustav Lindau, and Ragnar Östberg. Among people deceased in 1950, Adolf Meyer ranks 141. Before him are Maurice Costello, José Berraondo, Francisco Villota, Ransom E. Olds, Elisabeth Langgässer, and Mikhail Tskhakaya. After him are John M. Stahl, Albert Ehrenstein, Aleksandrs Čaks, Ivan Shmelyov, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, and Sudirman.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 480 out of 1,015. Before him are Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), Théodore Flournoy (1854), Yvonne Rüegg (1938), and Bernard Fellay (1958). After him are Émil Goeldi (1859), Albert Gallatin (1761), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), Emil Frey (1838), Jakob Stämpfli (1820), and Robert Pinget (1919).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 17. Before him are Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Thomas Erastus (1524), and Paolo Macchiarini (1958). After him are Daniel Mojon (1963).

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