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Pierre Paul Émile Roux

1853 - 1933

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Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pɔl emil ʁu]; 17 December 1853 – 3 November 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist. Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. Additionally, he investigated cholera, chicken-cholera, rabies, and tuberculosis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Paul Émile Roux has received more than 92,433 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Pierre Paul Émile Roux is the 293rd most popular physician (down from 261st in 2019), the 2,336th most popular biography from France (down from 1,986th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Pierre Paul Émile Roux ranks 293 out of 726. Before him are Henry Gray, Drew Weissman, Ennio Antonelli, Franciscus Donders, Caesarius of Nazianzus, and Johann Conrad Dippel. After him are Gerard van Swieten, Sigmund Rascher, Leopold Auenbrugger, Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Kálmán Kalocsay, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Pierre Paul Émile Roux ranks 43. Before him are Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Elihu Thomson, Roberto Ferruzzi, and Damat Ferid Pasha. After him are Alexius Meinong, Nikolai Kibalchich, Sarada Devi, Vladimir Kokovtsov, Higaonna Kanryō, and Ciprian Porumbescu. Among people deceased in 1933, Pierre Paul Émile Roux ranks 45. Before him are Haim Arlosoroff, Nitobe Inazō, Friedrich Zander, Hasan Prishtina, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Henri Duparc. After him are Sen Katayama, Hermann von François, Theodor Lessing, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Frank Jarvis, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Paul Émile Roux ranks 2,336 out of 6,770. Before him are Saint Martial (300), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Yasmina Reza (1959), Maïwenn (1976), and Pierre Leroux (1797). After him are Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), Bayezid Osman (1924), René-Louis Baire (1874), Émile Boutroux (1845), and Henri Labrouste (1801).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Pierre Paul Émile Roux ranks 33. Before him are Marcel Petiot (1897), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), and Guillaume Dupuytren (1777). After him are Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Antoine Louis (1723), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), and Ernest Duchesne (1874).

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