BIOLOGIST

Rudolf Vrba

1924 - 2006

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Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Vrba has received more than 1,009,697 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Rudolf Vrba is the 241st most popular biologist (down from 178th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Vrba ranks 241 out of 1,097. Before him are Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, and Willi Hennig. After him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, Antoine Béchamp, Carl Correns, Hermann Schlegel, and Martin Chalfie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rudolf Vrba ranks 109. Before him are Danielle Mitterrand, Edward Cassidy, Daniel arap Moi, Jean Girault, Katy Jurado, and Stanley Donen. After him are Rikidōzan, Dinah Washington, Pat Hingle, Khamtai Siphandon, Zbigniew Herbert, and Alexander Haig. Among people deceased in 2006, Rudolf Vrba ranks 92. Before him are Jack Warden, Anna Moffo, Paul Marcinkus, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Lee Jong-wook, and Betty Friedan. After him are Óscar Míguez, Robert Plutchik, Walerian Borowczyk, Richard Kuklinski, Pierre Clostermann, and Alexander Zinoviev.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Rudolf Vrba ranks 56 out of 418. Before him are Iveta Radičová (1956), Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833), Stephan Endlicher (1804), Barbara Zápolya (1495), Jozef Tomko (1924), and Ivan Reitman (1946). After him are Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853), Jozef Adamec (1942), Ján Popluhár (1935), Stefan Vojislav (990), Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956), and Vladimír Clementis (1902).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Slovakia

Among biologists born in Slovakia, Rudolf Vrba ranks 2. Before him are Stephan Endlicher (1804). After him are Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766), and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856).

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