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Leo Kanner

1894 - 1981

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Leo Kanner (; born Chaskel Leib Kanner; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kanner practiced as a physician in Germany and South Dakota. In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness." He named their condition "early infantile autism". Kanner was in charge of developing the first child psychiatry clinic in the United States and later served as the Chief of Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Kanner is the 4,675th most popular politician (up from 4,854th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 178th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leo Kanner is most famous for his work in autism. He was the first person to describe autism as a disorder.

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Among politicians, Leo Kanner ranks 4,675 out of 19,576. Before him are Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Theodore I Palaiologos, Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, and Verres. After him are Hethum I, King of Armenia, Gülbahar Hatun, Emperor Bidatsu, Emperor Sutoku, Feng Yuxiang, and Hosius of Corduba.

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Among people born in 1894, Leo Kanner ranks 52. Before him are Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Norman Rockwell, Paul Blobel, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Bessie Smith. After him are Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Anton Mussert, Percy Spencer, Ernst Lindemann, Aino Aalto, and Américo Tomás. Among people deceased in 1981, Leo Kanner ranks 42. Before him are Abel Gance, Stefan Wyszyński, Mehmet Shehu, Will Durant, David Wechsler, and Benjamin Sheares. After him are Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Lobsang Rampa, Karl Richter, Frances Yates, Alberto Suppici, and Marcel Bezençon.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leo Kanner ranks 156 out of 1,365. Before him are Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), and Serge Lifar (1904). After him are Boris Savinkov (1879), Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Valentin Glushko (1908), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), and Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leo Kanner ranks 50. Before him are Vitold Fokin (1932), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Pacatianus (200), Ephraim Katzir (1916), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), and Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030). After him are Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), Shvarn (1230), Ivan Sirko (1610), Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), and Valentina Matviyenko (1949).

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