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Félix d'Herelle

1873 - 1949

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Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist. He was co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy. D'Hérelle has also been credited for his contributions to the larger concept of applied microbiology. d'Hérelle was a self-taught microbiologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Félix d'Herelle is the 150th most popular biologist (up from 298th in 2019), the 1,083rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,453rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Félix d'Herelle ranks 150 out of 1,097. Before him are Daniel Nathans, Charles Scott Sherrington, E. O. Wilson, Gabriele Falloppio, Ibn al-Baitar, and Johan Christian Fabricius. After him are Howard Martin Temin, Joshua Lederberg, Bernard Katz, Thomas Huckle Weller, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, and Martin Chalfie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Félix d'Herelle ranks 32. Before him are Francisco I. Madero, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Kyösti Kallio, Sándor Ferenczi, Max Reinhardt, and William McMaster Murdoch. After him are John Flanagan, Feodor Chaliapin, Alice Guy-Blaché, Radoje Domanović, Thomas Curtis, and Christian Rakovsky. Among people deceased in 1949, Félix d'Herelle ranks 25. Before him are Elton Mayo, Victor Fleming, Edward Stettinius Jr., Fyodor Tolbukhin, Nathuram Godse, and Kim Koo. After him are Henri Giraud, Marcel Cerdan, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Aleksandra Ekster, Gustav Radbruch, and Solomon R. Guggenheim.

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In France

Among people born in France, Félix d'Herelle ranks 1,083 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Sérusier (1864), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Edgar Morin (1921), Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Claude Joseph Vernet (1714). After him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), Marcel Carné (1906), Henri Giraud (1879), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Félix d'Herelle ranks 22. Before him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), and Aimé Bonpland (1773). After him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), and Michel Adanson (1727).

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