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 764,254 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Rudolf Weigl is the 289th most popular biologist (down from 122nd in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 121st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Weigl ranks 289 out of 1,097. Before him are David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, Josif Pančić, and Hieronymus Bock. After him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Johann Hermann, Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Rudolf Weigl ranks 95. Before him are Joseph Stilwell, Hermann Abendroth, Hasui Kawase, Jean Metzinger, Henk Sneevliet, and Dmitry Manuilsky. After him are Rudolf Spielmann, Isaak Brodsky, Richard Gerstl, Umberto Saba, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and Eugen Ritter von Schobert. Among people deceased in 1957, Rudolf Weigl ranks 87. Before him are Irving Baxter, Hasui Kawase, Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, Sholem Asch, and Prince Franz of Bavaria. After him are Wilhelm Filchner, Umberto Saba, Paja Jovanović, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Heinrich Bär, and Albert Anastasia.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 269 out of 1,200. Before him are Pavel Haas (1899), Jan Stráský (1940), Pavel Kohout (1928), Lubomír Štrougal (1924), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696). After him are Johann Radon (1887), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia (1075), Dominik Duka (1943), and Václav Vorlíček (1930).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Rudolf Weigl ranks 4. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), and Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791). After him are Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), August von Pelzeln (1825), Josephine Kablick (1787), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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