1906 - 1993
Albert Bruce Sabin ( SAY-bin; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Sabin has received more than 670,695 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Albert Sabin is the 123rd most popular physician (down from 63rd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Poland (down from 95th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Physician.
Albert Sabin is most famous for developing the oral polio vaccine, which is a vaccine that is given to a person orally and not through injection.
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Among physicians, Albert Sabin ranks 123 out of 502. Before him are Herta Oberheuser, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Harvey J. Alter, John Eccles, Franz Joseph Gall, and Virginia Apgar. After him are Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Niels Kaj Jerne, Santorio Santorio, Albrecht von Haller, and Joseph Murray.
1911 - 1978
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 117
1840 - 1902
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 118
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 119
1903 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 120
1758 - 1828
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 121
1909 - 1974
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 122
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 123
1608 - 1679
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 124
1801 - 1858
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 125
1911 - 1994
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 126
1561 - 1636
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 127
1708 - 1777
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 128
1919 - 2012
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 129
Among people born in 1906, Albert Sabin ranks 56. Before him are Klaus Mann, Estée Lauder, Marcel Carné, Ernst Chain, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Empress Wanrong. After him are Max Delbrück, Ettore Majorana, Vera Menchik, James Hadley Chase, Fredric Brown, and Anthony Mann. Among people deceased in 1993, Albert Sabin ranks 27. Before him are W. Edwards Deming, Dizzy Gillespie, Kōbō Abe, Lillian Gish, Bill Bixby, and Wolfgang Paul. After him are Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cantinflas, Robert W. Holley, Vincent Price, Arthur Ashe, and Alexandra of Yugoslavia.
1906 - 1949
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 50
1906 - 2004
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 51
1906 - 1996
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 52
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 53
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 54
1906 - 1946
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 55
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 56
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 57
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 58
1906 - 1944
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 59
1906 - 1985
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 60
1906 - 1972
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 61
1906 - 1967
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 62
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 21
1917 - 1993
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 22
1924 - 1993
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 23
1893 - 1993
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 24
1934 - 1993
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 25
1913 - 1993
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 26
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 27
1909 - 1993
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 28
1911 - 1993
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 29
1922 - 1993
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 30
1911 - 1993
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 31
1943 - 1993
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 32
1921 - 1993
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 33
Among people born in Poland, Albert Sabin ranks 168 out of 1,454. Before him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Joseph Rotblat (1908), and Cymburgis of Masovia (1394). After him are Catherine Opalińska (1680), Henry II the Pious (1196), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Otto Kretschmer (1912), and Casimir I the Restorer (1016).
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 162
1889 - 1962
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 163
1884 - 1945
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 164
1892 - 1956
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 165
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 166
1394 - 1429
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 167
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 168
1680 - 1747
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 169
1196 - 1241
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 170
1776 - 1810
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 171
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 172
1912 - 1998
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 173
1016 - 1058
HPI: 62.12
Rank: 174
Among physicians born in Poland, Albert Sabin ranks 5. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Paul Ehrlich (1854), and Emil von Behring (1854). After him are Carl Wernicke (1848), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), and Hilary Koprowski (1916).
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 1
1821 - 1902
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 2
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 3
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 4
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 5
1848 - 1905
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 6
1868 - 1935
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 7
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 8
1566 - 1621
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 9
1865 - 1939
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 10
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 11
1916 - 2013
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 12