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Charles Nicolle

1866 - 1936

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Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Nicolle is the 58th most popular physician (up from 86th in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from France (up from 729th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Physician.

Charles Nicolle is most famous for his discovery of the cause of typhus.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles Nicolle ranks 58 out of 726. Before him are Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, and Emil Theodor Kocher. After him are Thutmose IV, Philippe Pinel, Samuel Hahnemann, Gerhard Domagk, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Francesco Redi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Charles Nicolle ranks 9. Before him are Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Alfred Werner. After him are Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, Giovanni Agnelli, Beatrix Potter, Hans von Seeckt, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. Among people deceased in 1936, Charles Nicolle ranks 16. Before him are Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, Oswald Spengler, Ferdinand Tönnies, Grigory Zinoviev, and Fuad I of Egypt. After him are Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Alexander Glazunov, G. K. Chesterton, Albert Fish, and Ottorino Respighi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Nicolle ranks 484 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Néel (1904), Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Roger Vadim (1928), Fernand Léger (1881), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636). After him are Stephen, King of England (1095), André Masséna (1758), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Charles Nicolle ranks 6. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Claude Bernard (1813), and Alexis Carrel (1873). After him are Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510).

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