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Albert Sabin

1906 - 1993

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Albert Bruce Sabin ( SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Sabin is the 113th most popular physician (down from 81st in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Poland (down from 123rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Physician.

Albert Sabin is most famous for developing the oral polio vaccine, which is a vaccine that is given to a person orally and not through injection.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albert Sabin ranks 113 out of 726. Before him are Frederick Banting, Harvey J. Alter, Ctesias, Werner Forssmann, James Parkinson, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Arvid Carlsson, Eric Kandel, Stanley Cohen, Alexandre Yersin, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, and John Eccles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Albert Sabin ranks 48. Before him are Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, Max Delbrück, Dino Buzzati, and Klaus Mann. After him are Ettore Majorana, Empress Wanrong, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr., Marie José of Belgium, and Hans Asperger. Among people deceased in 1993, Albert Sabin ranks 24. Before him are Robert W. Holley, Bobby Moore, Wolfgang Paul, Brandon Lee, Kōbō Abe, and Hans Jonas. After him are Bill Bixby, Lillian Gish, Léon Theremin, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Boris Christoff.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Albert Sabin ranks 138 out of 1,694. Before him are Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Angelus Silesius (1624), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Adolf Anderssen (1818), and Alfred Tarski (1901). After him are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Edward Sapir (1884), Anna Anderson (1896), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), and Alexander Bogdanov (1873).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Albert Sabin ranks 5. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Paul Ehrlich (1854), and Emil von Behring (1854). After him are Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815).

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