List of Famous people with last name Haffkine

Waldemar Haffkine

First Name Waldemar
Died on October 25, 1930

Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine was a bacteriologist from the Russian Empire who later became a French citizen. He emigrated to France 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".

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