the medal of St Sava. Since 2002 the street where his family house was is named after him, Dr Hempt street. Contribution to medicine Hempt's vaccine against rabies was the successor of Pasteur's. Its longer lasting ability helped in the transportation over distances, saving many lives of humans and animals. The vaccine was produced all over Europe from 1925 to the end of the 1980s, when it was replaced by modern tissue based vaccines. After creation of the new vaccine based on duck embryo, the Tropical Institute in Hamburg proved Hempt's vaccine still to be better, in regards of local and general reactions and number of antibodies. Dr. Imre Lentai on the symposium about rabies in 2001 in Novi Sad presented the fact, that no person vaccinated in Hungary with Hempt's vaccine was diagnosed with rabies. The vaccine was developed in Novi Sad in the beginning of the 1920s. He handled the invention as public knowledge from the beginning. Dr. Hempt took major part in publishing and education to prevent spreading of the disease. After the formulation of the vaccine he was in Paris, where he published the results in 1925 in one of the most known medical journals the Analima. According to this method the vaccination took only 6 days instead of 14–21 days of the existing methods. The other advantage was that this vaccination contained only dead viruses with sustained immunogens. Because of this, the vaccine was safe and able to be transported in glass ampules, and was also easy to use. Pasteur Institutes before that were preparing fresh vaccines, and customizing them to each patient. References 1874 births 1943 deaths Serbian biologists Serbian military doctors Scientists from Novi Sad Vaccinologists Yugoslav physicians