Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1900)
Scientific career
Fields
Bacteriology, protozoology
Institutions
Odessa University, University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute, Haffkine Institute
Author abbrev. (botany)
Khawkine
Waldemar Mordechai Wolff HaffkineCIE, 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".[1][2]
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours. 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."[3] He naturalised as a British Subject in 1900.[4]
In his final years Haffkine became more religious, becoming an advocate and philanthropist for Orthodox Jewish causes and a supporter of Zionism.
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^JHALA, H. I. "W. M. W. Haffkine, Bacteriologist—A Great Savior of Mankind" (PDF). Indian Journal of History of Science.
^London Jewish Chronicle. 1 June 2012. p. 8
^Schama, Simon (2023). Foreign bodies: pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations (First published ed.). London New York Sydney: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4711-6991-5.
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