Physician

James Black

1924 - 2010

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His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2024). James Black is the 38th most popular physician (up from 156th in 2024), the 292nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 783rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Physician.

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Among Physicians

Among physicians, James Black ranks 38 out of 726. Before him are Willem Einthoven, Qa'a, Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, Camillo Golgi, and Paul Ehrlich. After him are Niels Ryberg Finsen, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Marcello Malpighi, and Rita Levi-Montalcini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, James Black ranks 13. Before him are Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, Truman Capote, Robert Mugabe, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Eli Cohen. After him are Süleyman Demirel, Khamtai Siphandon, Jean-François Lyotard, Benoit Mandelbrot, Maurice Jarre, and Sarah Vaughan. Among people deceased in 2010, James Black ranks 9. Before him are Leslie Nielsen, Juan Antonio Samaranch, J. D. Salinger, Lech Kaczyński, Tony Curtis, and Ronnie James Dio. After him are Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, Eddie Fisher, Benoit Mandelbrot, Georges Charpak, and Maurice Allais.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Black ranks 292 out of 8,785. Before him are Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Thomas Young (1773), Jane Goodall (1934), Jason Statham (1967), and Henry I of England (1068). After him are Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Francis William Aston (1877), George Best (1946), Alfred Marshall (1842), Saint Ursula (400), and Norman Haworth (1883).

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Among Physicians In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Black ranks 7. Before him are Joseph Lister (1827), Edward Jenner (1749), Edgar Adrian (1889), William Harvey (1578), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and John Snow (1813). After him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), Hans Sloane (1660), and Thomas Willis (1621).

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