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BIOLOGIST

David Bruce

1855 - 1931

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Major-General Sir David Bruce (29 May 1855 – 27 November 1931) was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who made some of the key contributions in tropical medicine. In 1887, he discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Bruce has received more than 24,592 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. David Bruce is the 252nd most popular biologist (up from 258th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Australia (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Bruce ranks 252 out of 841Before him are Johann Baptist von Spix, George Shaw, Carl Correns, Rupert Sheldrake, David Julius, and August Grisebach. After him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, James Edward Smith, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Hermann Schlegel, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, David Bruce ranks 33Before him are Evelyn De Morgan, Guido Adler, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Edwin Hall, Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Eduard Meyer. After him are Alexandre Darracq, Christian Bohr, Alexandros Zaimis, Vsevolod Garshin, Xu Shichang, and Giovanni Pascoli. Among people deceased in 1931, David Bruce ranks 51Before him are Auguste Forel, Eugene de Blaas, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Melvil Dewey, Antonio Salandra, and Princess Isabella of Croÿ. After him are Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Alexandre Darracq, Nellie Melba, Salvatore Maranzano, Louise, Princess Royal, and William Bates.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, David Bruce ranks 61 out of 925Before him are Phil Rudd (1954), Luís Vaz de Torres (1565), Rhonda Byrne (1945), Harold Holt (1908), Raymond Dart (1893), and David Helfgott (1947). After him are John Newcombe (1944), Cassandra Harris (1948), Edward Cassidy (1924), Michael Hutchence (1960), Nellie Melba (1861), and Thomas Keneally (1935).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, David Bruce ranks 3Before him are Elizabeth Blackburn (1948) and Macfarlane Burnet (1899). After him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).