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Hélène Sparrow

1891 - 1970

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Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970), was a Polish medical doctor and bacteriologist. She is best known for her work on the control of many epidemics including: typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and smallpox. Throughout the 1920s, Sparrow worked with the Polish Armed Forces at the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. While at the State Institute of Hygiene, she worked vigilantly to produce the first vaccine against typhus and ran several large-scale vaccination campaigns to control the spread of diphtheria and scarlet fever all along the eastern frontiers of Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hélène Sparrow is the 396th most popular physician (up from 575th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 750th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hélène Sparrow ranks 396 out of 726. Before her are Moritz Kaposi, Robert Liston, Paul Hermann, Emil Aarestrup, Johann Lukas Schönlein, and Kusumoto Ine. After her are Karl Friedrich Burdach, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Scribonius Largus, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Anders Chydenius, and Adolph Kolping.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Hélène Sparrow ranks 123. Before her are Vladimir Albitsky, Kenneth Anderson, Pavlo Tychyna, Greta Schröder, Abraham Fraenkel, and Jan Mukařovský. After her are Julio Baghy, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Juan Yagüe, Zdeněk Fierlinger, and John W. McCormack. Among people deceased in 1970, Hélène Sparrow ranks 119. Before her are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Abraham Zapruder, Ed Begley, Yusof Ishak, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, and James B. Donovan. After her are Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Cathy O'Donnell, Unica Zürn, Lonnie Johnson, Félix Gaillard, and Lucía Sánchez Saornil.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 401 out of 1,365. Before her are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Valentin Kataev (1897), Sydir Kovpak (1887), Anatoly Onoprienko (1959), Eugen Schauman (1875), and Pavel Urysohn (1898). After her are Yuriy Drohobych (1450), Yevgenia Bosch (1879), Verka Serduchka (1973), Abba P. Lerner (1903), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), and Victor Kravchenko (1905).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ukraine

Among physicians born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 4. Before her are Selman Waksman (1888), Vladimir Dal (1801), and Grunya Sukhareva (1891). After her are Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Maryna Poroshenko (1962), Łucja Frey (1889), Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881), and Ben Klassen (1918).

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