Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff (1860–1930)

Russian bacteriologist. He developed a vaccine for the treatment of cholera, first used at Agra, India (1893). He also introduced a fluid for inoculation against plague (1897). He was later appointed bacteriologist to the British government of India.

He was born in Odessa, in modern-day Ukraine. He became a pupil of Pasteur and held for some time the post of professor of physiology at the Geneva medical school. From there he went to India, where he was made director-in-chief of the government laboratory at Bombay (now Mumbai).