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Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, born Vladimir Aronovich (Markus-Volf) Khavkin was a Russian-born bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines.
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science · Russian-French microbiologist (1856–1930) · immunologist · physician · botanist · bacteriologist · microbiologist · also Waldemar Haffkine, Waldemar M. Haffkine, Mardochée-Woldemar Khawkine, Khawkine, Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine
Born 15 March 1856 · Died 25 October 1930 · Q2142351
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The work at Bombay absorbed the best years of my life and I need not explain how much I feel everything connected therewith. I wish the Institute prosperity as an active centre of work on behalf of the health organisation of the country, and I send blessings to the whole of its staff.
a number of doctors within the British Raj were envious of him and extremely antagonistic to him because he was Jewish, Russian and he wasn
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“The work at Bombay absorbed the best years of my life and I need not explain how much I feel everything connected therewith. I wish the Institute prosperity as an active centre of work on behalf of the health organisation of the country, and I send blessings to the whole of its staff.”
“a number of doctors within the British Raj were envious of him and extremely antagonistic to him because he was Jewish, Russian and he wasn”
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The Chabad Hasidic movement published three letters addressed to Haffkine by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, who had engaged Haffkine to support the Jews living in communist Russia
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Died 1930-10-25.
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Established the Haffkine Foundation to foster Jewish education in Eastern Europe
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The Plague Laboratory in Bombay was renamed the Haffkine Institute
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Returned to France and later moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, where he spent the last years of his life
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Was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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Haffkine approached Aga Khan III with an offer for Sultan Abdul Hamid II to resettle Jews in Palestine, then split between a number of subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire: the effort "could be progressively undertaken in
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Where he conducted large-scale trials of his vaccine
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Joined Mechnikov and Louis Pasteur in Paris at the newly established Pasteur Institute where he took up the only available post of librarian
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Haffkine was allowed to emigrate to Switzerland and began his work at the University of Geneva, as an assistant professor of Physiology
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The medical science at that time did not consider it a sole cause of the disease
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Haffkine was injured while defending a Jewish home during a pogrom
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Born 1856-03-15.
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