BIOLOGIST

Waldemar Haffkine

1860 - 1930

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Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine , born Vladimir Aronovich (Markus-Volf) Khavkin (Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines. Haffkine was educated at the Imperial Novorossiya University and later emigrated first to Switzerland, then to France, working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed a cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully in India. He is recognized as the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Waldemar Haffkine has received more than 366,291 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Waldemar Haffkine is the 204th most popular biologist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 225th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 204 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein, John James Audubon, Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, and Adam Afzelius. After him are J. B. S. Haldane, Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Thomas Browne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 44. Before him are Gustave Charpentier, James McKeen Cattell, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Otto Jespersen, Jules Laforgue, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. After him are Sergey Sazonov, William Kennedy Dickson, Friedrich Naumann, Charles Curtis, Michel Zevaco, and Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis. Among people deceased in 1930, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 36. Before him are Leopold Auer, Wilfrid Voynich, Jules Pascin, Vladimir Arsenyev, Giulio Douhet, and Yang Kaihui. After him are Otto Sverdrup, Simko Shikak, Theodor Nöldeke, José Carlos Mariátegui, Riccardo Drigo, and Rafael Merry del Val.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 214 out of 1,365. Before him are Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Yaakov Dori (1899), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), and Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836). After him are Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Filaret (1929), and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 3. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), and Trofim Lysenko (1898). After him are Ludwik Fleck (1896), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Michał Boym (1614), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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