Awarded honorary doctorate of the Université de Clermont-Ferrand (1967).
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Carlos Chagas
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working a…
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science · Brazilian doctor and scientist (1879–1934) · bacteriologist · physician · entomologist · academic · scientific collector · also Carlos Chagas, Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, Chagas
Born 9 July 1879 · Died 8 November 1934 · Q438907
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1934· 1 entry
Died 1934-11-08.
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1926).
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1925· 1 entry
Career landmark: full professor (1925).
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1922· 1 entry
Chagas became a member of the Health Committee of the League of Nations
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1921· 1 entry
42 scientists were nominated for the award, the top four nominees having received 11, nine, seven, and seven nominations, respectively
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1917· 1 entry
Chagas accepted Cruz's directorship of the institute, a post he held until his own death in 1934
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1913· 1 entry
63 scientists were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the top two nominees having received nine and eight nominations, respectively
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1912· 1 entry
French couple at the Pasteur Institute, Pierre Delanoë and Marie Delanoë identified and described the other parasite they found in rats
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1910· 2 entries
Further noticed that the parasitic infection could be classified into at least three different conditions, chronic heart disease, brain disorder, and thyroid problem, especially of goiter
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One of his sons, Carlos Chagas Filho (1910–2000), became an eminent and internationally recognized scientist in the field of neurophysiology and president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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1909· 2 entries
While he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz
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Reported in the Brazilian medical journal, Brazil Médico, a case of human trypanosomiasis and noted the association with severe heart disease
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1908· 1 entry
Reported in Brazil Médico the blood sample of marmosets had protozoan parasites that he named Trypanosoma minasense
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1907· 1 entry
There was an outbreak of malaria at the Minas Gerais hinterland, largely affecting railroad workers and greatly hampered the construction on new railway from Rio de Janeiro to the city of Belém in the Amazon
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1906· 1 entry
Chagas returned to Rio de Janeiro and joined the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, where he worked for the rest of his life
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1905· 1 entry
Worked under the Docas de Santos company in the port authority of Santos, São Paulo, with the mission of fighting the malaria epidemic, which was affecting its workers
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1902· 1 entry
With a dissertation on malaria and earned his doctorate the following year with a thesis on Estudos Hematológicos do Impaludismo (Hematological Studies on Malaria)
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1896· 1 entry
Joined the Medical School of Rio de Janeiro (now the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
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1895· 1 entry
That incapacitated him from continuing those studies
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1888· 1 entry
A political turmoil erupted as Emperor Dom Pedro II declared abolition of slavery
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-07-09.
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