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Jacinto Convit

1913 - 2014

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Jacinto Convit García (11 September 1913 – 12 May 2014) was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine and held many leprosy-related positions. Among Convit's many honors for his work on leprosy and tropical diseases was Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category and France's Legion of Honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacinto Convit has received more than 169,042 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jacinto Convit is the 568th most popular physician (down from 519th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Venezuelan Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jacinto Convit ranks 568 out of 726. Before him are Nikolay Burdenko, Carlo Urbani, Gustav Fischer, Bernard Nathanson, Russell M. Nelson, and Jean Cruveilhier. After him are Paul Hermann, Joseph Schröter, Metrodora, Florence R. Sabin, Richard Leach Maddox, and John Arbuthnot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jacinto Convit ranks 252. Before him are Franz Brunner, Herbert Runge, Cordwainer Smith, Rudolf Harbig, Homai Vyarawalla, and Oswald Teichmüller. After him are Erich Eliskases, Ellen Albertini Dow, Robert Nisbet, Fred Agabashian, Mary Carew, and Balraj Sahni. Among people deceased in 2014, Jacinto Convit ranks 302. Before him are Elizabeth Jane Howard, Takako Doi, Mithat Bayrak, Ferdinando Terruzzi, Lucius Shepard, and Sid Caesar. After him are Aurelio Milani, Peter Scholl-Latour, Cheo Feliciano, Mary Anderson, Polly Bergen, and Lucien Clergue.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Jacinto Convit ranks 62 out of 183. Before him are Andrew Divoff (1955), Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (1942), Rosalio José Castillo Lara (1922), Andrés Narvarte (1781), Juan Bautista Pérez (1869), and Gustavo Dudamel (1981). After him are José Gregorio Monagas (1795), Simón Díaz (1928), José María Carreño (1792), Henrique Capriles (1972), Ignacio Velasco (1929), and Edgar Sanabria (1911).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Venezuela

Among physicians born in Venezuela, Jacinto Convit ranks 3. Before him are Baruj Benacerraf (1920), and José Gregorio Hernández (1864).

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