BIOLOGIST

Jules Bordet

1870 - 1961

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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet ( bor-DAY, French: [ʒyl ʒɑ̃ batist vɛ̃sɑ̃ bɔʁdɛ]; 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Bordet is the 22nd most popular biologist (up from 25th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Biologist.

Jules Bordet is most famous for his discovery of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium, which causes whooping cough.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jules Bordet ranks 22 out of 1,097. Before him are George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. After him are Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Sulston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Jules Bordet ranks 7. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Sophia of Prussia, and Franz Lehár. After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, Adolf Loos, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ivan Bunin, and Miguel Primo de Rivera. Among people deceased in 1961, Jules Bordet ranks 10. Before him are Zog I of Albania, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, and Lee de Forest. After him are Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edith Wilson, Mohammed V of Morocco, and Maria of Yugoslavia.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jules Bordet ranks 31 out of 1,190. Before him are Albert II of Belgium (1934), Philippe of Belgium (1960), Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Eddy Merckx (1945), Leopold III of Belgium (1901), and César Franck (1822). After him are Abraham Ortelius (1527), Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480), Baudouin of Belgium (1930), Albert I of Belgium (1875), Mary of Hungary (1505), and Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among biologists born in Belgium, Jules Bordet ranks 1. After him are Albert Claude (1899), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), George Albert Boulenger (1858), Edouard Van Beneden (1846), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), Marie-Anne Libert (1782), and Peter Piot (1949).

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