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Robin Cook

1940 - Today

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Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes largely about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is known best for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured by Reader's Digest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Cook is the 225th most popular physician (down from 164th in 2019), the 2,108th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,280th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Physician.

Robin Cook is most famous for his medical thrillers.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robin Cook ranks 225 out of 726. Before him are Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Barry Marshall, Carl Ludwig, Sebastian Kneipp, Eduard Bloch, and Mondino de Luzzi. After him are Maurice Bucaille, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Frederik Ruysch, Soranus of Ephesus, Ernst-Günther Schenck, and Paul Gachet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Robin Cook ranks 121. Before him are Jan Jongbloed, Mate Boban, Nobuyoshi Araki, Frida Boccara, Peter Diamond, and Gojko Mitić. After him are Souleymane Cissé, Walter Alvarez, Rudi Dutschke, Régis Debray, Fabrizio De André, and Jean-Luc Dehaene.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 2,108 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothy Malone (1924), James Pickens Jr. (1954), Kirk Hammett (1962), Sonny Bono (1935), Harlow Shapley (1885), and La Toya Jackson (1956). After him are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Evander Holyfield (1962), Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Lana Del Rey (1985), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), and Bernard Baruch (1870).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 33. Before him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Richard Axel (1946), Randy Schekman (1948), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Patch Adams (1945), and Louis Ignarro (1941). After him are Robert Atkins (1930), John O'Keefe (1939), Joseph Erlanger (1874), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), and Henry Heimlich (1920).

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