Nature: Prof. Albert Calmette, For. Mem. R.S
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Albert Calmette
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He co-discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenom for snake venom, the Calmette's serum.
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science · French physician and immunologist (1863–1933) · physician · immunologist · bacteriologist · virologist · botanist · also Albert Calmette, Calmette
Born 12 July 1863 · Died 29 October 1933 · Q437983
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2009· 1 entry
Is also named "Calmette" connecting district 1 to district 4, also connected to the exit of the new Thu Thiem tunnel connecting the district 1 to the future residential Thu Thiem area in district 2
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1933· 1 entry
Died 1933-10-29.
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1930· 1 entry
When 72 vaccinated children developed tuberculosis in Lübeck, Germany, due to a contamination of some vaccine batches in Germany
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1921).
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Used BCG to successfully vaccinate newborn infants in the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris
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1920· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1920–1920).
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1918· 1 entry
Accepted the post of assistant director of the Institute in Paris; the following year he was made a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine
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1914· 1 entry
By Henriette Caillaux after running a long press campaign against her husband
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1909· 1 entry
Helped to establish the Institute branch in Algiers, Algeria
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1906· 1 entry
A veterinarian and immunologist working at the Institut Pasteur de Lille, Camille Guérin, established that immunity against tuberculosis was associated with the living tubercle bacilli in the blood
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1904· 1 entry
Founded the Ligue du Nord contre la Tuberculose (Northern Antituberculosis League), which still exists today
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1901· 1 entry
Founded the first antituberculosis dispensary at Lille, and named it after Emile Roux
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1895· 2 entries
Career landmark: director (1895–1918).
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Roux entrusted him with the directorship of the Institute's branch at Lille (Institut Pasteur de Lille), where he remained for the next 25 years
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1894· 1 entry
Returned to France and developed the first antivenoms for snake bites using immune sera from vaccinated horses (Calmette's serum)
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1891· 1 entry
There, he dedicated himself to the nascent field of toxicology, which had important connections to immunology, and he studied snake and bee venom, plant poisons and curare
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1890· 1 entry
Calmette met Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) and Emile Roux (1853–1933), who was his professor in a course on bacteriology
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1883· 2 entries
Began medical practice in the Naval Medical Corps in Hong Kong, where he worked with Patrick Manson
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Studied at Brest School of Naval Medicine (1881–1883).
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1882· 1 entry
That its pathogenic agent was the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Louis Pasteur became interested in it too
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1881· 1 entry
Joined the Navy as a physician getting his training at the School of Naval Physicians at Brest
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-07-12.
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1858· 1 entry
He was the brother of Gaston Calmette (1858–1914), the editor of Le Figaro who was shot and killed in 1914 by Henriette Caillaux after running a long press campaign against her husband.
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