In Da Lat was named "Yersin University" in his honour [Trường Đại Học Yersin Đà Lạt]
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Alexandre Yersin
Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague. The bacteria was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bac…
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science · Swiss-born French physician and microbiologist · physician · bacteriologist · explorer · agronomist · biologist · also Alexandre Yersin, Yersin
Born 22 September 1863 · Died 1 March 1943 · Q123920
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1943· 1 entry
Died 1943-03-01.
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1939).
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Grand officer of the Order of the Dragon of Annam (1935).
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1934· 1 entry
Was nominated honorary director of Pasteur Institute and a member of its Board of Administration
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1927· 1 entry
Awarded Leconte Prize (1927).
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1923· 1 entry
It acquired a new designation as Pasteurella pestis, which it kept up to about 1970, when Yersin obtained posthumous honour through its final name, Yersinia pestis
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1915· 1 entry
Where he acclimatized the quinine tree (Cinchona ledgeriana), which was imported from the Andes in South America, and which produced the first known effective remedy for preventing and treating malaria
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1913· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1913).
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1905· 1 entry
This laboratory became a branch of the Pasteur Institute)
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1897· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1897).
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A concession from the government to establish an agricultural station at Suoi Dau
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1896· 2 entries
And in Bombay, India, in 1897, with disappointing results
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Went to Hong Kong again to treat plague victims with his new antiserum
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1895· 2 entries
Yersin returned to Paris to collaborate with his associates in Pasteur’s laboratories
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Returned to the Institute Pasteur in Paris and with Émile Roux, Albert Calmette and Amédée Borrel, prepared the first anti-plague serum
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1894· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1894).
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“should not be denied this credit”
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1890· 1 entry
Awarded French Order of Academic Palms (1890).
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1889· 1 entry
As Roux's collaborator and together they discovered that Corynebacterium diphtheriae secreted a soluble toxin that was responsible for the effects of diphtheria
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1888· 1 entry
Received his doctorate with a dissertation titled Étude sur le Développement du Tubercule Expérimental (Study on the Development of Experimental Tubercule) and spent two months with Robert Koch in Germany
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1886· 1 entry
Yersin entered Louis Pasteur's research laboratory at the École Normale Supérieure, by invitation of Émile Roux, and participated in the development of the anti-rabies serum
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1863· 2 entries
Born 1863-09-22.
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In Aubonne, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, the youngest of three sons
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