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Frederic Lewy

1885 - 1950

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Fritz Heinrich Lewy (; January 28, 1885 – October 5, 1950), known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Lewy was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, on January 28, 1885. He trained in Berlin and Zürich and graduated from Berlin in 1910. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederic Lewy is the 516th most popular physician (up from 519th in 2019), the 3,972nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,144th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederic Lewy ranks 516 out of 726. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly, Ernst von Bergmann, Caspar Peucer, Thomas Francis Wade, Jean Cruveilhier, and Julius Vincenz von Krombholz. After him are Franz Josef Ruprecht, Thomas Erastus, Emil Zuckerkandl, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Alfred Blalock, and Vladimir Filatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Frederic Lewy ranks 157. Before him are Henry Taylor, Alice Paul, Alfréd Haar, Zhou Zuoren, Pierre Dupong, and Sigrid Hjertén. After him are Platt Adams, Guilhermina Suggia, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Enrico Porro, Richmond K. Turner, and Emmy Hennings. Among people deceased in 1950, Frederic Lewy ranks 128. Before him are Dezső Földes, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Pedro Parages, George Kingsley Zipf, Yan Huiqing, and Konrad von Preysing. After him are Guilhermina Suggia, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Alykul Osmonov, Vasily Gordov, Louis Wilkins, and Frederick Twort.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederic Lewy ranks 3,974 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Beckmann (1739), Wilhelm Solf (1862), Justus Möser (1720), Theodor Curtius (1857), J. C. Leyendecker (1874), and Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804). After him are Otto Deßloch (1889), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), Andrey Osterman (1686), Jacques Mieses (1865), and Cem Özdemir (1965).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Frederic Lewy ranks 86. Before him are Friedrich von Huene (1875), Gustav Fischer (1848), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Kurt Blome (1894), Ruth Pfau (1929), and Caspar Peucer (1525). After him are Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Ludwig Aschoff (1866), and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786).

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