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Mar 15, 1860 Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine Died on 25 Oct 1930 (aged 70)
Imperial Russian Jewish biologist
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About Waldemar Haffkine
- Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine (Russian: ????????-????? ??????; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a bacteriologist from the Russian Empire whose career was blighted in Russia because he refused to convert from Judaism to Russian Orthodox Christianity.
- He emigrated and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed an anti-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.
- He tested the vaccines on himself.
- Lord Joseph Lister named him "a saviour of humanity". He was knighted in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year Honours in 1897.
- The Jewish Chronicle of that time noted "a Ukraine Jew, trained in the schools of European science, saves the lives of Hindus and Mohammedans and is decorated by the descendant of William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great."
