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Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser

1855 - 1916

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Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (22 January 1855, Schweidnitz – 30 July 1916, Breslau) was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser is the 367th most popular physician (down from 320th in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from Poland (down from 527th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser ranks 367 out of 726Before him are Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Petrus Camper, Claus Schilling, Stamen Grigorov, Priscilla Chan, and Gustav Hartlaub. After him are Jean Pierre Flourens, Ron Wyatt, Philip Showalter Hench, Johann Christian Reil, Jack Kevorkian, and Johann Peter Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser ranks 46Before him are Pavlos Kountouriotis, James S. Sherman, Narayana Guru, Alexandre Darracq, Giovanni Pascoli, and Marie Corelli. After him are Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Christian Bohr, Albert F. Mummery, Hermes da Fonseca, Samad bey Mehmandarov, and Hugo von Pohl. Among people deceased in 1916, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser ranks 77Before him are Charles Booth, William Stanley Jr., Alice Ball, Huang Xing, Karl von Stürgkh, and Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Patrick Pearse, Cai E, Higaonna Kanryō, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Adolph Frank, and Hugo von Pohl.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser ranks 567 out of 1,694Before him are Paul Löbe (1875), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), Justyna Steczkowska (1972), Werner Lorenz (1891), and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819). After him are Bolesław the Pious (1225), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Edward Ochab (1906), and Joseph Serchuk (1919).

Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser ranks 13Before him are Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815). After him are Hilary Koprowski (1916), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), Max Gerson (1881), and Adam Zamenhof (1888).