Q. Rudolf Weigl, seen in the Google Doodle, was an inventor and immunologist from which country?
Answer:
Poland
Notes:
- Google celebrated the 138th birthday of Polish inventor, doctor, and immunologist Rudolf Weigl with a doodle.
- He had produced the first-ever effective vaccine against one of the oldest and most infectious diseases, named ‘Epidemic typhus’.
- His work has been honored by two Nobel Prize nominations.
- Weigl adapted Body lice into a laboratory specimen. In 1936, Weigl’s vaccine successfully inoculated its first beneficiary.