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Rudolf Vrba

1924 - 2006

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Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war, Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Vrba is the 237th most popular biologist (up from 241st in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Vrba ranks 237 out of 1,097. Before him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Ana Aslan, Peter Forsskål, Albert Günther, Stephen Jay Gould, and Theodor Escherich. After him are J. B. S. Haldane, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Thomas Browne, John du Pont, Carl Correns, and Pieter Boddaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rudolf Vrba ranks 93. Before him are James Baldwin, Hermann Buhl, Claude Sautet, Milka Planinc, Leonid Kogan, and Dorothy Malone. After him are Noboru Takeshita, Maria Riva, Madame Nhu, Alexander Haig, Rikidōzan, and Katy Jurado. Among people deceased in 2006, Rudolf Vrba ranks 72. Before him are David Bronstein, Shamil Basayev, Shohei Imamura, Sven Nykvist, William Styron, and Joachim Fest. After him are Rajkumar, Lillian Asplund, Paul Marcinkus, W. Montgomery Watt, Milan Babić, and Betty Friedan.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Rudolf Vrba ranks 48 out of 418. Before him are Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860), Ernő Gerő (1898), Ferdinand Daučík (1910), Andrej Kiska (1963), Pál Maléter (1917), and Lucia Popp (1939). After him are Iveta Radičová (1956), Vazul (1000), Franz Schmidt (1874), Ján Popluhár (1935), Peter Pellegrini (1975), and Jan Kupecký (1667).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Slovakia

Among biologists born in Slovakia, Rudolf Vrba ranks 2. Before him are Stephan Endlicher (1804). After him are Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766), and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856).

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