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Hélène Sparrow

1891 - 1970

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Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970), was a Polish medical doctor and bacteriologist. She is best known for her work on the control of many epidemics including: typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and smallpox. Throughout the 1920s, Sparrow worked with the Polish Armed Forces at the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène Sparrow has received more than 21,077 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hélène Sparrow is the 510th most popular physician (down from 450th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 539th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hélène Sparrow ranks 510 out of 502Before her are Emil Zuckerkandl, Wilhelm Kühne, Gregorio Marañón, Richard Leach Maddox, Gustav Hartlaub, and Frederick Twort. After her are Oswaldo Cruz, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Wim Eijk, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, and Nadezhda Suslova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Hélène Sparrow ranks 185Before her are William Christian Bullitt Jr., Sidney Howard, Harry Cohn, E. A. Dupont, Birbal Sahni, and Victor Varconi. After her are Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Franz Babinger, Philipp Etter, Zofia Stryjeńska, Issay Dobrowen, and Jan Wils. Among people deceased in 1970, Hélène Sparrow ranks 176Before her are Marcel Minnaert, Anna Louise Strong, Jérôme Carcopino, Jaipal Singh Munda, Iuliu Hossu, and István Fekete. After her are Alice Hamilton, Dora Boothby, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Vano Muradeli, and Andrejs Upīts.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 609 out of 1,083Before her are Jan Koum (1976), Mark Krein (1907), Nina Dumbadze (1919), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Zellig Harris (1909), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930). After her are Igor Krutoy (1954), Margarita Aliger (1915), Oleksandr Zavarov (1961), Andriy Pyatov (1984), Victor Pinchuk (1960), and Andrei Kanchelskis (1969).

Among PHYSICIANS In Ukraine

Among physicians born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 6Before her are Selman Waksman (1888), Vladimir Dal (1801), Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), and Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881). After her are Ben Klassen (1918).