BIOLOGIST

Félix d'Herelle

1873 - 1949

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Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist. He was co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Félix d'Herelle has received more than 75,185 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Félix d'Herelle is the 298th most popular biologist (down from 244th in 2019), the 2,453rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,206th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Félix d'Herelle ranks 298 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Nägeli, and Friedrich Loeffler. After him are Nikolai Severtzov, Conrad Moench, Alexander von Middendorff, Clemens von Pirquet, James P. Allison, and Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Félix d'Herelle ranks 73. Before him are Sidney Reilly, Hasan Prishtina, Rudolf Rocker, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Kyōka Izumi, and Józef Haller. After him are Margaret Bondfield, Louis Feuillade, Alexey Shchusev, Iuliu Maniu, Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Nureddin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1949, Félix d'Herelle ranks 64. Before him are Ginette Neveu, Maria Cebotari, Vladimir Nazor, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, and Alejandro Lerroux. After him are Wakatsuki Reijirō, Husni al-Za'im, Laura Montoya, Alexey Shchusev, Erich von Drygalski, and Koçi Xoxe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Félix d'Herelle ranks 2,453 out of 6,770. Before him are Bérenger Saunière (1852), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jacques Pills (1906), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Antoine Coysevox (1640), and Blanche of Artois (1248). After him are Roman Opałka (1931), Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624), Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), Henri Eberhardt (1913), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), and Madeleine Vionnet (1876).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Félix d'Herelle ranks 36. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Johann Hermann (1738). After him are Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Charles Chamberland (1851), and Philibert Commerson (1727).

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