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Leonid Rogozov

1934 - 2000

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Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Ро́гозов; 14 March 1934 – 21 September 2000) was a Russian general practitioner and surgeon who took part in the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Novolazarevskaya Station from September 1960 to October 1962. He is best known for performing a surgery to remove his own appendix—an auto-appendectomy—after he began suffering from appendicitis while deployed there in April 1961. The incident, which occurred because Rogozov was the only medical professional among his entire team, prompted the Soviet government to reform the safety policies for all personnel at the country's Antarctic research facilities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Rogozov is the 204th most popular physician (down from 187th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Russia (up from 459th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leonid Rogozov ranks 204 out of 726. Before him are Torsten Wiesel, Hans Sloane, Franciscus Sylvius, Robert Lefkowitz, Leander of Seville, and Duchenne de Boulogne. After him are Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Marcel Petiot, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Patch Adams, Louis Ignarro, and Philipp Franz von Siebold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Leonid Rogozov ranks 93. Before him are Eduard Khil, Nirmala Joshi, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Ingvar Carlsson, Otar Iosseliani, and Marty Feldman. After him are Georges Wolinski, Édith Cresson, Pedro Pires, Clive Granger, Franc Rode, and Valery Bykovsky. Among people deceased in 2000, Leonid Rogozov ranks 49. Before him are Tommaso Buscetta, Akira Nozawa, Anatoly Sobchak, John Harsanyi, Merton Miller, and Richard Farnsworth. After him are Barbara Cartland, Lolo Ferrari, Saburō Sakai, Đorđe Martinović incident, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Carlo M. Cipolla.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Rogozov ranks 444 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Helena of Moscow (1476), Andrei Platonov (1899), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Grigory Sokolov (1950), and Mikhail Gurevich (1892). After him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903), Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917), and Galina Ulanova (1910).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Russia

Among physicians born in Russia, Leonid Rogozov ranks 1. After him are Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Vera Weizmann (1881), Eugene Botkin (1865), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Nadezhda Suslova (1843), Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Sergey Botkin (1832), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), Nikolai Semashko (1874), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), and Peter Lesgaft (1837).

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