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William Cullen

1710 - 1790

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William Cullen (; 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a British physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was David Hume's physician, and was friends with Joseph Black, Henry Home, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Adam Smith, among others. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1746–47), president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1773–1775) and first physician to the king in Scotland (1773–1790). He also assisted in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Cullen is the 353rd most popular physician (down from 322nd in 2019), the 2,060th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,735th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Cullen ranks 353 out of 726. Before him are Karl Genzken, Aëtius of Amida, Thomas Szasz, Paul Neumann, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. After him are Nikolai Korotkov, Alfonso López Trujillo, Johann von Staupitz, Robert Remak, Carl Lange, and Thomas Horsfield.

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Among people born in 1710, William Cullen ranks 14. Before him are Domenico Alberti, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Thomas Simpson. After him are James Ferguson, Abraham Trembley, Johann II Bernoulli, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Paolo Renier, and Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz. Among people deceased in 1790, William Cullen ranks 12. Before him are András Hadik, Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and Johann Bernhard Basedow. After him are Johann II Bernoulli, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, and Marmaduke Tunstall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 2,060 out of 8,785. Before him are Black (1962), Frances de la Tour (1944), John Dollond (1706), Richard Dannatt (1950), Tricky (1968), and Barbara Hepworth (1903). After him are Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), James Boswell (1740), Willibald (700), Phil Lynott (1949), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), and Irvine Welsh (1957).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 31. Before him are John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Harry Seeley (1839), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842). After him are Robert Darwin (1766), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), Robert Liston (1794), Lorna Wing (1928), James Braid (1795), and Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816).

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