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A bacteriologist who developed the first vaccines against both cholera and bubonic plague, testing each one on himself before trialing them successfully in India during the epidemics of the 1890s. Joseph Lister called him "a saviour of humanity," and Queen Victoria made him a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. In his later years he became a committed advocate for Orthodox Jewish causes and an early supporter of Zionism.