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BIOLOGIST

Theobald Smith

1859 - 1934

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Theobald Smith FRS(For) HFRSE (July 31, 1859 – December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist, bacteriologist, pathologist and professor. Smith is widely considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.Smith's research work included the study of babesiosis (originally known as Texas cattle fever) and the more-general epidemiology of cattle diseases caused by tick borne diseases. He also described the bacterium Salmonella enterica (formerly called Salmonella choleraesuis), a species of Salmonella, named for the Bureau of Animal Industry chief Daniel E. Salmon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theobald Smith has received more than 78,430 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Theobald Smith is the 697th most popular biologist, the 6,645th most popular biography from United States and the 98th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Theobald Smith ranks 697 out of 841Before him are David Don, Élie-Abel Carrière, Johann Gerhard König, Jacob Bjerknes, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, and Miles Joseph Berkeley. After him are Karel Domin, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Pál Kitaibel, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Friedrich Boie, and William Elford Leach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Theobald Smith ranks 109Before him are Virginie Demont-Breton, Stefan Toshev, Ernst Hartert, Teodor Teodorov, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Paul Passy. After him are Émil Goeldi, Jón Magnússon, Juan Campisteguy, Carrie Chapman Catt, Josephine Crowell, and Anatole Le Braz. Among people deceased in 1934, Theobald Smith ranks 116Before him are Nathaniel Lord Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Willem Kes, Sergey Oldenburg, Eduard Bagritsky, and Manuel Márquez Sterling. After him are Lou Tellegen, N. E. Brown, Franz Ehrle, Pyotr Chardynin, Sergey Lebedev, and Blind Blake.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theobald Smith ranks 6,645 out of 18,182Before him are Matt Frewer (1958), Jane Pierce (1806), Corbin Bleu (1989), William Dean Howells (1837), Jack Lousma (1936), and Mark Damon (1933). After him are Zig Ziglar (1926), Maynard James Keenan (1964), Ben McKenzie (1978), Louise Lasser (1939), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), and Jean Bartik (1924).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Theobald Smith ranks 98Before him are Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Alice Hamilton (1869), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Leidy (1823), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), and Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858). After him are Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), Robert Trivers (1943), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Mary-Claire King (1946), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935).