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Thomas Addison

1793 - 1860

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Thomas Addison (April 1795 – 29 June 1860) was an English physician and medical researcher. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London. Thomas Addison began his career at Guy's Hospital in 1817, eventually becoming a full physician in 1837. He was a noted and respected lecturer and diagnostician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Addison is the 272nd most popular physician (up from 282nd in 2019), the 1,601st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,459th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Addison ranks 272 out of 726. Before him are Clarke Abel, Bernard Kouchner, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Henry Gray, and Hieronymus Fabricius. After him are John Harvey Kellogg, Johann Conrad Dippel, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, Eduard Wirths, August Oetker, and Hans Berger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Thomas Addison ranks 20. Before him are James Dunlop, Josef Ressel, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Charles Paul de Kock, Sam Houston, and Tokugawa Ieyoshi. After him are Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Constantine Kanaris, Princess Caroline of Denmark, and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist. Among people deceased in 1860, Thomas Addison ranks 19. Before him are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Julia Pastrana, Ang Duong, and André Marie Constant Duméril. After him are Ernst Moritz Arndt, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Ii Naosuke, Aleksey Khomyakov, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 1,601 out of 8,785. Before him are Denis Thatcher (1915), Martin Shaw (1945), Martin Lowry (1874), Matt Bellamy (1978), Genesis P-Orridge (1950), and Seal (1963). After him are John Powell (1963), Gerry Byrne (1938), Ricky Gervais (1961), Thomas Arne (1710), Frank Lampard (1978), and Colin Dexter (1930).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Addison ranks 21. Before him are John Langdon Down (1828), Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), Cicely Saunders (1918), Clarke Abel (1780), and Henry Gray (1827). After him are Thomas Hodgkin (1798), William Gull (1816), John Latham (1740), John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), and Harry Seeley (1839).

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