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James Parkinson

1755 - 1824

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James Parkinson (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is best known for his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that was later renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Parkinson is the 111th most popular physician (down from 107th in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 562nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Physician.

James Parkinson was a British physician who published the first medical description of Parkinson's disease in 1817.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Parkinson ranks 111 out of 726. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne, Cornelius Jansen, Frederick Banting, Harvey J. Alter, Ctesias, and Werner Forssmann. After him are Herbert Spencer Gasser, Albert Sabin, Arvid Carlsson, Eric Kandel, Stanley Cohen, and Alexandre Yersin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, James Parkinson ranks 9. Before him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Paul Barras, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Hahnemann, and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. After him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, Anthony of Saxony, Giovanni Battista Viotti, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. Among people deceased in 1824, James Parkinson ranks 8. Before him are Lord Byron, Théodore Géricault, Eugène de Beauharnais, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, and Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Maine de Biran, and David Bushnell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 627 out of 8,785. Before him are Derek Barton (1918), Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965), Colin Renfrew (1937), Isaac Barrow (1631), Donald Winnicott (1896), and Daniel Craig (1968). After him are A. A. Milne (1882), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), G. H. Hardy (1877), Brook Taylor (1685), William Godwin (1756), and Gerald Gardner (1884).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 9. Before him are Edgar Adrian (1889), William Harvey (1578), Alan Hodgkin (1914), John Snow (1813), James Black (1924), and Niels Kaj Jerne (1911). After him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), Frederick Griffith (1879), and John Langdon Down (1828).

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