Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Died 1922-05-18.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867.
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science · French physician (1845–1922) · microbiologist · parasitologist · botanist · researcher · bacteriologist · physician · also Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Laveran, Alphonse Laveran
Born 18 June 1845 · Died 18 May 1922 · Q189006
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1922· 2 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Suffered from an unspecified illness for some months and died in Paris
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1916· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1916).
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1912· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1912).
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1908· 2 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Founded the Société de pathologie exotique, over which he presided for 12 years
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Founded the Société de Pathologie Exotique
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1907· 4 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1907).
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
For his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
"in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases
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1905· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
And Trypanosoma Montgomeryi in 1909, which were later corrected as Trypanosoma congolense, a parasite of nagana in cattle and horses
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1904· 1 entry
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By which more than thirty new species were described
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1903· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
While at the Pasteur Institute, he received the specimens from a British medical officer Charles Donovan from Madras, India, and with the help of his colleague Félix Mesnil, he named it Piroplasma donovanii
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1902· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Won Edward Jenner Medal (1902).
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1901· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Urging the need for eradication and control of mosquitos
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1896· 2 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Entered the Pasteur Institute as Chief of the Honorary Service to pursue full-time research on tropical diseases
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Joined Pasteur Institute as Chief of the Honorary Service, from where he received the Nobel Prize
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1895· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Won Cothenius Medal (1895).
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1894· 3 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Was appointed Chief Medical Officer of the military hospital at Lille and then Director of Health Services of the 11th Army Corps at Nantes
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And experimentally proved by Ronald Ross in 1898
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Returned to France to serve in various military health services
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1893· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
And was conferred Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 1912
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1889· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
And the Edward Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1902 for his discovery of the malarial parasite
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1881· 1 entry
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In the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, and in English in The Lancet
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1880· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Laveran discovered the cause of malaria as a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a person who had just died of malaria
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1878· 2 entries
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
And he was sent to Algeria, where he remained until 1883
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Worked in Algeria, where he made his major achievements
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1874· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Qualified a competitive examination by which he was appointed to the Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce, a position his father had occupied
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1867· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Submitted a thesis titled Recherches expérimentales sur la régénération des nerfs (Research Experiments on the Regeneration of Nerves) by which he earned his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg
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1866· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Became a resident medical student in the Strasbourg civil hospitals
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1845· 1 entry
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born 1845-06-18.
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