Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
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| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran | |
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| Born | 18 June 1845 |
| Died | 18 May 1922 (aged 76) Paris, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Known for | Trypanosomes, malaria |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1907) |
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 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. He also helped inspire researchers and veternarians today to try and find a cure for malaria in animals.[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.
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- ^ 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. PMC 1439072. PMID 7021827. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1439072.
- ^ Haas LF (October 1999). "Neurological stamp. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922)". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 67 (4): 520. doi:10.1136/jnnp.67.4.520. PMC 1736558. 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): pp. 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): pp. 753–64. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(67)90030-2. PMID 4865951.
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