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BIOLOGIST

Waldemar Haffkine

1860 - 1930

Waldemar Haffkine

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 349,579 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Waldemar Haffkine is the 203rd most popular biologist (up from 260th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 275th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 203 out of 841. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Pierre André Latreille, John Boyd Orr, Jeffrey C. Hall, Charles M. Rice, and Henrietta Lacks. After him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, Robert Gallo, Hideyo Noguchi, and Adam Afzelius.

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HPI: 56.58
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 47. Before him are Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Jules Laforgue, William Kennedy Dickson, and Sergey Sazonov. After him are Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Annie Oakley, Sunanda Kumariratana, Michel Zevaco, and Friedrich Naumann. Among people deceased in 1930, Waldemar Haffkine ranks 37. Before him are Yang Kaihui, Giulio Douhet, Otto Mueller, Vasily Bartold, Otto Sverdrup, and Vladimir Arsenyev. After him are José Carlos Mariátegui, Theodor Nöldeke, Adolf Engler, Eduard Meyer, Emil Krebs, and Rafael Merry del Val.

Others Born in 1860

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Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
1860 - 1933
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 41
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis
1860 - 1881
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 42
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
1860 - 1917
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 43
Jules Laforgue
1860 - 1887
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 44
William Kennedy Dickson
1860 - 1935
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 45
Sergey Sazonov
1860 - 1927
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 46
Waldemar Haffkine
1860 - 1930
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 47
Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz
1860 - 1917
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 48
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia
1860 - 1919
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 49
Annie Oakley
1860 - 1926
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 50
Sunanda Kumariratana
1860 - 1880
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 51
Michel Zevaco
1860 - 1918
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 52
Friedrich Naumann
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HPI: 55.76
Rank: 53