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Hulusi Behçet

1889 - 1948

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Hulusi Behçet (Ottoman Turkish: خلوصی بهجت; Turkish: [behˈtʃet]; 20 February 1889 – 8 March 1948) was a Turkish dermatologist and scientist. He described a disease of inflamed blood vessels in 1937, which is named after him as Behçet's disease. His portrait was depicted on a former Turkish postcard stamp. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hulusi Behçet is the 493rd most popular physician (down from 438th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 929th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Turkish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hulusi Behçet ranks 493 out of 726. Before him are Rutherford Alcock, Richard Bright, Maryna Poroshenko, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Antonio Scarpa, and Łucja Frey. After him are Edith Farkas, William Hunter, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, William Stewart Halsted, Soumya Swaminathan, and Eugène Olivier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Hulusi Behçet ranks 175. Before him are Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Shōji Nishimura, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, W. S. Van Dyke, Łucja Frey, and Gerhard Marcks. After him are Ernest Marsden, Charles Reidpath, Edmond Privat, Julius Skutnabb, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, and Ralph H. Fowler. Among people deceased in 1948, Hulusi Behçet ranks 123. Before him are Louis Lumière, Abraham Brill, Avetis Aharonian, C. Aubrey Smith, Zhou Fohai, and Aldo Leopold. After him are Leo White, Sylvanus Morley, František Svoboda, Henri Hazebrouck, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, and Gerardo Matos Rodríguez.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Hulusi Behçet ranks 992 out of 1,347. Before him are John the Silent (454), Aphthonius of Antioch (300), Serapion of Antioch (200), Özcan Deniz (1972), Metrophanes of Byzantium (300), and Okan Buruk (1973). After him are Critolaus (-200), Hande Erçel (1993), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901), Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (1968), Şivan Perwer (1955), and Justin (600).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Türkiye

Among physicians born in Türkiye, Hulusi Behçet ranks 14. Before him are Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Soranus of Ephesus (98), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), Caesarius of Nazianzus (330), Aëtius of Amida (502), and Gazi Yaşargil (1925). After him are Rufus of Ephesus (100), Serenus Sammonicus (200), Türkan Saylan (1935), and Georgi Valkovich (1833).

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