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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

1926 - 2004

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author, and developer of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model". In 1970, Kübler-Ross delivered the Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University, focusing on her book, On Death and Dying (1969). By July 1982, Kübler-Ross had taught 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1999, the New York Public Library named On Death and Dying one of its "Books of the Century," and Time magazine recognized her as one of the "100 Most Important Thinkers" of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is the 81st most popular physician (down from 59th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 46th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physician.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is most famous for her five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 81 out of 726. Before her are Johannes Fibiger, Selman Waksman, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Jens Christian Skou, August Krogh, and Eugen Bleuler. After her are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Cyril of Jerusalem, Walter Rudolf Hess, Hua Tuo, Karl Brandt, and Ragnar Granit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 28. Before her are Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Irwin Rose, Harper Lee, Hugh Hefner, and Jerry Lewis. After her are Paul Berg, Sydney Chaplin, Beji Caid Essebsi, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Paul Bocuse, and Leopoldo Galtieri. Among people deceased in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 20. Before her are P. V. Narasimha Rao, Susan Sontag, Françoise Sagan, Christopher Reeve, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. After her are Janet Leigh, Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Akhmad Kadyrov, Helmut Newton, and Stieg Larsson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 53 out of 1,015. Before her are Adelaide of Italy (931), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Lys Assia (1924), Daniel Bovet (1907), Robert Walser (1878), and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778). After her are Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Henry Fuseli (1741), and Hermann Rorschach (1884).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 5. Before her are Paracelsus (1493), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Eugen Bleuler (1857). After her are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), and Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867).

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