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Alexandre Yersin

1863 - 1943

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Alexandre Émile John Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer (1894) of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Yersin is the 117th most popular physician (down from 97th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 69th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Physician.

Alexandre Yersin was a French bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes bubonic plague.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alexandre Yersin ranks 117 out of 726. Before him are James Parkinson, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Albert Sabin, Arvid Carlsson, Eric Kandel, and Stanley Cohen. After him are Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, John Eccles, Hotepsekhemwy, Alexander Bogdanov, Johannes Peter Müller, and Baruch Samuel Blumberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Alexandre Yersin ranks 22. Before him are George Herbert Mead, Joaquín Sorolla, Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Wilhelm Marx, and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Max Wolf, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Werner Sombart, Vladimir Vernadsky, Reginald Innes Pocock, and George Santayana. Among people deceased in 1943, Alexandre Yersin ranks 22. Before him are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Millerand, Beatrix Potter, Władysław Sikorski, and Nikolai Vavilov. After him are Maurice Denis, Max Wertheimer, Max Reinhardt, Julius Fučík, Beatrice Webb, and Jean Moulin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alexandre Yersin ranks 71 out of 1,015. Before him are Hans Küng (1928), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Emil Jannings (1884), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), and Max Frisch (1911). After him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Domenico Fontana (1543), Clay Regazzoni (1939), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), and Heinrich Wölfflin (1864).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Alexandre Yersin ranks 7. Before him are Paracelsus (1493), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881). After him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777).

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