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Ernest Duchesne

1874 - 1912

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Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) was a French physician who noted that certain molds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those molds, but his research went unnoticed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Duchesne is the 442nd most popular physician (down from 351st in 2019), the 3,277th most popular biography from France (down from 2,787th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ernest Duchesne ranks 442 out of 726. Before him are Realdo Colombo, Gazi Yaşargil, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Crawford Long, James Braid, and Maximilian Bircher-Benner. After him are Giorgio Biandrata, Antonio Bertoloni, Dorotea Bucca, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Rebecca Guarna, and Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Ernest Duchesne ranks 119. Before him are Laura Montoya, Bahaeddin Şakir, Fernand Bouisson, Francis Lane, Frank Elmore Ross, and William Foulke. After him are Dimitrios Golemis, Alfred Tysoe, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Eugen Fischer, Amy Lowell, and Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar. Among people deceased in 1912, Ernest Duchesne ranks 71. Before him are Allan Octavian Hume, Eloy Alfaro, Takuboku Ishikawa, Mykola Pymonenko, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, and Francisco Lázaro. After him are Henri Brisson, Andrew Lang, William Wilson, Theodor Gomperz, Paul Wallot, and Anna Filosofova.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ernest Duchesne ranks 3,277 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Laniel (1889), Marie-Denise Villers (1774), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), Jean Desmarets (1595), and Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642). After him are Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908), Michel Aumont (1936), René de Froulay de Tessé (1648), Wolfgang Capito (1478), and Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Ernest Duchesne ranks 48. Before him are Antoine Louis (1723), Adrien Proust (1834), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Aemilia Hilaria (300), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755). After him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Eugène Olivier (1881), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Henri Dutrochet (1776), and Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835).

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