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Albert Calmette

1863 - 1933

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Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Calmette has received more than 159,178 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Albert Calmette is the 165th most popular physician (down from 103rd in 2019), the 1,265th most popular biography from France (down from 884th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Physician.

Albert Calmette is most famous for inventing the rabies vaccine.

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  • 60.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albert Calmette ranks 165 out of 502. Before him are Sushruta, Bernardo Houssay, Joseph Erlanger, Robin Warren, Michael Stuart Brown, and Merit-Ptah. After him are Engelbert Kaempfer, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, Dominique Jean Larrey, Anthony Fauci, and Alexander Bogdanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Albert Calmette ranks 31. Before him are Gaston Doumergue, Reinhard Scheer, George Santayana, Max Wolf, Heinrich Rickert, and William Randolph Hearst. After him are Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, Franz von Hipper, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, and Charles Spearman. Among people deceased in 1933, Albert Calmette ranks 21. Before him are Oskar Potiorek, Stefan George, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Paul Ehrenfest, Erhard Heiden, and Anatoly Lunacharsky. After him are Knud Rasmussen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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In France

Among people born in France, Albert Calmette ranks 1,265 out of 6,011. Before him are Livilla (-13), Armand David (1826), Renata of Lorraine (1544), Claude, Duke of Guise (1496), François Cluzet (1955), and Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894). After him are Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Richard Avenarius (1843), Sigebert II (602), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Édouard Vuillard (1868), and Vanessa Paradis (1972).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Albert Calmette ranks 18. Before him are Jean Nicot (1530), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Charles Nicolle (1866), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), and André Frédéric Cournand (1895). After him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Marcel Petiot (1897), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Maurice Bucaille (1920), and Paul Gachet (1828).

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