Félix d'Hérelle

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

6

Influence

12

Resistance

7

In collections

1 player has it in their collection.

What Wikipedia says

Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist. He was co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy. D'Hérelle has also been credited for his contributions to the larger concept of applied microbiology.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Félix d'Hérelle”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: [Service photo Institut Pasteur - Photothèque], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.