Waldemar Haffkine
Also known as Waldemar M. Haffkine, Mardochée-Woldemar Khawkine, Khawkine, Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine
bacteriologist (1856–1930)
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- Born
- 1860
- Died
- 1930
- Works
- 4
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- Protective inoculation against cholera
- A conversazione on the preventive inoculation against plague
- A lecture on vaccination against cholera
- Serum-therapy of plague in India
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Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine CIE, 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. He tested the vaccines on himself. Joseph Lister named him "a saviour of humanity".
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