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Rudolf Weigl

1883 - 1957

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Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939. Weigl worked during the Holocaust to save the lives of countless Jews by developing the vaccine for typhus and providing shelter to protect those suffering under the Nazi Germans in occupied Poland. For his contributions, he was named a Righteous Among the Nations in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Weigl is the 440th most popular biologist (down from 289th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 269th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Weigl ranks 440 out of 1,097. Before him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Arthur Cronquist, Robert Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Barber, John Stevens Henslow, and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr. After him are Oscar Hertwig, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Franz von Paula Schrank, Ernst Hartert, Alexander Wilson, and Leizu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Rudolf Weigl ranks 121. Before him are Dmytro Dontsov, Paul Levi, Hasui Kawase, Johann Kremer, Riccardo Zandonai, and Diego Martínez Barrio. After him are Indalecio Prieto, Nikolai Luzin, Enrico Toselli, Rudolf Spielmann, Eric Temple Bell, and Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz. Among people deceased in 1957, Rudolf Weigl ranks 102. Before him are Heinrich Bär, Valery Larbaud, Umberto Saba, Musidora, Luigi Ganna, and Hasui Kawase. After him are Irving Baxter, Walter Jakobsson, Katie Johnson, Sholem Asch, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Halil Kut.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 327 out of 1,200. Before him are Karel Ančerl (1908), František Tomášek (1899), Anne of Bavaria (1329), Ernst Weiss (1882), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656). After him are Victor Kugler (1900), Count Gustav Kálnoky (1832), Alexander von Krobatin (1849), Josef Sudek (1896), Károly Khuen-Héderváry (1849), and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 6. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), and Carl Borivoj Presl (1794). After him are Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), August von Pelzeln (1825), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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