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BIOLOGIST

Rudolf Weigl

1883 - 1957

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Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939. Weigl worked during the Holocaust to save the lives of countless Jews by developing the vaccine for typhus and providing shelter to protect those suffering under the Nazi Germans in occupied Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Weigl has received more than 754,511 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rudolf Weigl is the 123rd most popular biologist (up from 345th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 291st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Weigl ranks 123 out of 841. Before him are William Bateson, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Ferdinand Cohn, Norman Borlaug, Har Gobind Khorana, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Ralph M. Steinman, Armand David, Gaspard Bauhin, and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Rudolf Weigl ranks 49. Before him are Georgios Papanikolaou, Döme Sztójay, Max Linder, Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Joseph Pilates. After him are Marie Laurencin, Adolph Joffe, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Ida Rubinstein, Alexandros Papagos, and José Clemente Orozco. Among people deceased in 1957, Rudolf Weigl ranks 43. Before him are Beniamino Gigli, José Leandro Andrade, James Brendan Connolly, Erich Auerbach, Johnny Torrio, and Aga Khan III. After him are Hermann Buhl, Max Ophüls, Rudolf Diels, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Max Amann, and Carl Clauberg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 121 out of 973. Before him are Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547), Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292), Ivan Lendl (1960), Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901), Emil Škoda (1839), and Adalbert Stifter (1805). After him are Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), Otto Wichterle (1913), Jan Kubiš (1913), Jan Neruda (1834), and Milada Horáková (1901).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 3. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822) and Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787). After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Josephine Kablick (1787), Friedrich Reinitzer (1857), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), and Karel Domin (1882).

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