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Waldemar Haffkine

1860 - 1930

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Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine , born Vladimir Aronovich (Markus-Volf) Khavkin (Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines. Haffkine was educated at the Imperial Novorossiya University and later emigrated first to Switzerland, then to France, working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed a cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully in India. He is recognized as the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. He tested the vaccines on himself. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Waldemar Haffkine is the 227th most popular biologist (down from 204th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 214th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 227 out of 1,097. Before him are Eric F. Wieschaus, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Grisebach, Jeffrey C. Hall, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and Temple Grandin. After him are John James Audubon, Othenio Abel, Anders Sparrman, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Ana Aslan, and Peter Forsskål.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 39. Before him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Karl Denke, Gustave Charpentier, Paul Ulrich Villard, Mercedes of Orléans, and Gyula Andrássy the Younger. After him are Isaac Levitan, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Jules Laforgue, John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, and Sergey Sazonov. Among people deceased in 1930, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 33. Before him are Adolf von Harnack, Adolf Engler, Jules Pascin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Leopold Auer, and Luigi Facta. After him are Otto Mueller, Vasily Bartold, Jeppe Aakjær, Silvio Gesell, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Rafael Merry del Val.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 190 out of 1,365. Before him are Wojciech Kilar (1932), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Louis B. Mayer (1884), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), and Vassily Ivanchuk (1969). After him are Mykola Lysenko (1842), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Igor Belanov (1960), Batbayan (700), and Anatole Litvak (1902).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 4. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), and Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803). After him are Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Michał Boym (1614), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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