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Eva Klein

1925 - 2025

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Eva Klein (née Eva Fischer; 22 January 1925 – 19 January 2025) was a Hungarian-Swedish scientist. Klein worked at the Karolinska Institute since leaving Hungary in 1947. She is regarded as a founder of cancer immunology. Her life and career choices as a young Jewish woman were constrained by discrimination, and she survived the late stages of German occupation in hiding. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eva Klein is the 299th most popular physician (up from 448th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 374th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eva Klein ranks 299 out of 726. Before her are Herman Snellen, Leonid Kulik, Leopold Auenbrugger, Henry Heimlich, Kálmán Kalocsay, and Jan Jesenius. After her are Caesarius of Nazianzus, Ennio Antonelli, Saint Fabiola, Mehmet Oz, William Osler, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Eva Klein ranks 133. Before her are François-Xavier Ortoli, Nancy Roman, Robert Hardy, Michael Dummett, Pierre Bérégovoy, and Gregorio Conrado Álvarez. After her are Farley Granger, Jenő Buzánszky, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Alexander Shulgin, Prosper Grech, and Shigeko Higashikuni. Among people deceased in 2025, Eva Klein ranks 97. Before her are Margarita Xhepa, Frits Bolkestein, Jerry Butler, Priscilla Pointer, Eleonora Giorgi, and Harry Bild. After her are Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lee Shau-kee, David Vunagi, Charles Rangel, Yola Ramírez, and Michelle Trachtenberg.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Eva Klein ranks 232 out of 1,077. Before her are Paul Lukas (1894), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Hans Swarowsky (1899), László Bárdossy (1890), Chaka of Bulgaria (1210), and László Krasznahorkai (1954). After her are Mihály Lantos (1928), Andrew Grove (1936), William Fox (1879), Jenő Buzánszky (1925), Eugene Ormandy (1899), and Ödön Lechner (1845).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Eva Klein ranks 5. Before her are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Gabor Maté (1944), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), and Kálmán Kalocsay (1891). After her are Thomas Szasz (1920), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Edith Farkas (1921), Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Gabriele Possanner (1860), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).

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