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Helen B. Taussig

1898 - 1986

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Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome). This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helen B. Taussig is the 470th most popular physician (down from 420th in 2019), the 4,981st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,054th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Helen B. Taussig ranks 470 out of 726. Before her are Friedrich von Esmarch, William Bayliss, Nikolay Gamaleya, William Stukeley, Kazimierz Bein, and Diocles of Carystus. After her are William Chester Minor, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, David Cooper, Petrus Alphonsi, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, and William Turner.

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Among people born in 1898, Helen B. Taussig ranks 150. Before her are Joe Spence, Walther von Hünersdorff, Johan Richthoff, Mikhail Koltsov, Eduard Pütsep, and Maria Klenova. After her are Ira Sprague Bowen, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Anthony McAuliffe, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, and Boughera El Ouafi. Among people deceased in 1986, Helen B. Taussig ranks 135. Before her are D. R. Kaprekar, Valerian Zorin, Vasily Ignatenko, Josef Kammhuber, Lili Kraus, and Teddy Wilson. After her are Leona Woods, Henry Russell, David Cooper, Anatoly Marchenko, Sandro Puppo, and Pasquale Festa Campanile.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 4,981 out of 20,380. Before her are Imogen Cunningham (1883), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Robert Motherwell (1915), Tatum O'Neal (1963), Alfred Worden (1932), and Truxtun Hare (1878). After her are Surangel Whipps Jr. (1968), David Wilkerson (1931), Herbert Ross (1927), D'arcy Wretzky (1968), Queen Latifah (1970), and Anne Haney (1934).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 54. Before her are Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), William Bates (1860), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Crawford Long (1815), Deborah Birx (1956), and Benjamin Rush (1745). After her are Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Russell M. Nelson (1924), Alfred Blalock (1899), George Huntington (1850), and Jill Stein (1950).

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