Died 1933-11-03.
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Pierre-Paul Émile Roux
Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist. Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. Additionally, he investigated cholera, chicken-cholera, rabies, and tuberculosis.…
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science · French physician (1853–1933) · bacteriologist · immunologist · photographer · physician · also Pierre-Paul Émile Roux, Émile Roux, Pierre Roux, Emile Roux, Pierre Paul Emile Roux, Pierre-Paul Emile Roux
Born 17 December 1853 · Died 3 November 1933 · Q286440
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1917· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1917).
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Received the Copley Medal for his outstanding achievements in research
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1916· 1 entry
Moved to a small apartment in the Pasteur Hospital, where he died on 3 November 1933
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1913· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1913).
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1904· 1 entry
Was nominated to Pasteur's former position as General Director of the Pasteur Institute
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1891· 1 entry
To develop an effective serum to treat the disease, following the demonstration, by Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) and Kitasato Shibasaburō (1852–1931) that antibodies against the diphtheric toxin could be produced i
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1889· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1889).
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1888· 2 entries
An important year in his career, he accepted the position of Director of Services, joined the editorial board of the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, and established the first regular course on microbiological technique, w
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For the isolation of the diphtheria toxin, but didn't win the prize in 1901 because his discovery was deemed to be too "old
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1883· 4 entries
Roux published, with Alexandre Yersin, the first of his classical works on the causation of diphtheria by the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, then an extremely prevalent and lethal disease, particularly among children
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Roux presented a doctoral dissertation in medicine titled Des Nouvelles Acquisitions sur la Rage, in which he described his research on rabies with Pasteur since 1881, which led to the development of the first vaccinatio
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To Egypt to study a cholera outbreak in humans
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And for the following 40 years, Émile Roux became closely involved with the creation of what was to become the Pasteur Institute
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1879· 1 entry
Of tuberculosis within days of Roux performing his critical experiments on chicken cholera vaccine
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1878· 2 entries
Pierre Paul Emile Roux married Rose Anna Shedlock in London, but it was kept a secret
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Started to work as an assistant to the course on fermentation given by his patron Duclaux at the Sorbonne University
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1871· 1 entry
And started his studies in 1872 at the Medical School of Clermont-Ferrand
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-12-17.
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