Alphonse Laveran

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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Died Paris, France
Nationality France
Fields Medicine
Known for Trypanosomes, malaria
Notable awards Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1907)

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician.

In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.[1] This was the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease. He later worked on the trypanosomes, particularly sleeping sickness.[2] For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Laveran is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

References

  1. ^ Bruce-Chuvatt LJ (July 1981). "Alphonse Laveran's discovery 100 years ago and today's global fight against malaria". J R Soc Med 74 (7): 531–6. PMID 7021827. PMC: 1439072, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1439072&blobtype=pdf. 
  2. ^ Haas LF (October 1999). "Neurological stamp. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922)". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 67 (4): 520. PMID 10486402, http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10486402. 
  • Nye, Edwin R (2002), "Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): discoverer of the malarial parasite and Nobel laureate, 1907.", Journal of medical biography 10 (2): 81-7, 2002 May, PMID 11956550 
  • Garnham, P C (1967), "Presidential address: reflections on Laveran, Marchiafava, Golgi, Koch and Danilewsky after sixty years.", Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 61 (6): 753-64, PMID 4865951 
  • CDC profile

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