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Robert Liston

1794 - 1847

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Robert Liston (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) was a British surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. He was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College Hospital in London and performed the first public operation utilising modern anaesthesia in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Liston is the 391st most popular physician (up from 458th in 2019), the 2,274th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,561st in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Liston ranks 391 out of 726. Before him are Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Willi Graf, Filippo Pacini, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Luigi Carlo Farini, and Moritz Kaposi. After him are Paul Hermann, Emil Aarestrup, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Kusumoto Ine, Hélène Sparrow, and Karl Friedrich Burdach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Robert Liston ranks 30. Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez, Carl Borivoj Presl, Achille Valenciennes, Heinrich Boie, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Henriette d'Angeville, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Jacques Babinet, and Nasir-ud-Daulah. Among people deceased in 1847, Robert Liston ranks 23. Before him are William II, Elector of Hesse, Charles Hatchett, Alexandre Deschapelles, Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, Ioannis Kolettis, and Josef Jungmann. After him are Karl Friedrich Burdach, Marie Antoinette Murat, Friedrich von Gärtner, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William Smith, and Thiệu Trị.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Liston ranks 2,274 out of 8,785. Before him are Nell Gwyn (1650), Branwell Brontë (1817), Dixie Dean (1907), George Herbert (1593), Arthur Percival (1887), and David Knopfler (1952). After him are Jim Lea (1949), Marina Diamandis (1985), Mary McAleese (1951), Dave Evans (1953), J. B. Priestley (1894), and Peter Yates (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Liston ranks 34. Before him are Thomas Sydenham (1624), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), William Cullen (1710), Robert Darwin (1766), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836). After him are Lorna Wing (1928), James Braid (1795), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), William Stukeley (1687), and William Turner (1510).

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