Victor Morax
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Victor Morax (16 March 1866 - 14 May 1935) was a French ophthalmologist who was born in Morges, Switzerland. He studied in Freiburg (Germany) and Paris, and from 1891 to 1903 he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. From 1903 to 1928 he was associated with the Hôpital Lariboisière, and in 1930 became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
While at the Pasteur Institute, Morax discovered the bacillus Moraxella lacunata, which is the cause of chronic conjunctivitis. The disease is sometimes referred to as either "Morax' disease" or as "Axenfeld's conjunctivitis", named after German ophthalmologist Theodor Axenfeld (1867-1930), who made his discovery of the bacillus during the same time period as did Morax.
In 1923 he became vice-president of the International League Against Trachoma with bacteriologist Charles Nicolle (1866-1936) as its president. In 1929 he published an important treatise on the disorder titled Le Trachome. From 1892 he was editor of the journal Annales d’oculistique.
References
- Victor Morax @ Who Named It
- Portail Institut Pasteur (translated biography)
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