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Albert Calmette

1863 - 1933

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Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ ʃaʁl albɛʁ kalmɛt]; 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 180,888 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Calmette is the 198th most popular physician (down from 165th in 2019), the 1,533rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,261st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Physician.

Albert Calmette is most famous for inventing the rabies vaccine.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albert Calmette ranks 198 out of 726. Before him are Heo Jun, Louis Ignarro, Peter Agre, Paul Gachet, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, and Neferkare Neby. After him are Ludwig Guttmann, Waldemar Hoven, Zhang Zhongjing, Bernardino Ramazzini, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, and Asclepiades of Bithynia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Albert Calmette ranks 40. Before him are Andrés Bonifacio, Paul Painlevé, Hugo Münsterberg, Mary Jane Kelly, Franz von Hipper, and Abdul Karim. After him are Felix Weingartner, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Émile Friant, Henry Royce, Charles Spearman, and Leopold Berchtold. Among people deceased in 1933, Albert Calmette ranks 27. Before him are Kenji Miyazawa, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Paul Painlevé, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Erik Jan Hanussen. After him are Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Francesc Macià, Hans Vaihinger, Henry Royce, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Raymond Roussel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Albert Calmette ranks 1,533 out of 6,770. Before him are Oenomaus (-105), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Charles, Duke of Mayenne (1554), Claude of France (1547), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716). After him are Catherine de Bourbon (1559), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756), Étienne Marcel (1315), Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), and John of Matha (1150).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Albert Calmette ranks 23. Before him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Guy de Chauliac (1300), and Paul Gachet (1828). After him are Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Marcel Petiot (1897), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), and François Magendie (1783).

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