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Emil von Behring

1854 - 1917

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Emil von Behring (German: [ˈeːmiːl fɔn ˈbeːʁɪŋ] ; Emil Adolf von Behring: born Emil Adolf Behring; 15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin. He was widely known as a "saviour of children", as diphtheria used to be a major cause of child death. His work with the disease, as well as tetanus, has come to bring him most of his fame and acknowledgment. He was honoured with Prussian nobility in 1901, henceforth being known by the surname "von Behring". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil von Behring is the 52nd most popular physician (down from 25th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Physician.

Emil von Behring is most famous for his work in developing a vaccine for diphtheria.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Emil von Behring ranks 52 out of 726. Before him are Elias Lönnrot, Peter Damian, Polycarp, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Ronald Ross, and Alexis Carrel. After him are Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, Emil Theodor Kocher, and Charles Nicolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Emil von Behring ranks 10. Before him are Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, and Paul Sabatier. After him are Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, Johannes Rydberg, and Engelbert Humperdinck. Among people deceased in 1917, Emil von Behring ranks 11. Before him are Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, and Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After him are Emil Theodor Kocher, Edward Burnett Tylor, Buffalo Bill, Franz Brentano, Dragutin Dimitrijević, and John William Waterhouse.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Emil von Behring ranks 72 out of 1,694. Before him are Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Andrzej Wajda (1926), and Christian Wolff (1679). After him are Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), and Benoit Mandelbrot (1924).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Emil von Behring ranks 4. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Rudolf Virchow (1821), and Paul Ehrlich (1854). After him are Albert Sabin (1906), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815).

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