biography
| name: |
Yersin, Alexandre Emile John
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pronunciation:
[yairsĩ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1943)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Aubonne, SW Switzerland. He studied at Lausanne, Marburg, and Paris universities, then carried out research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, working along with Emile Roux on diphtheria antitoxin. In Hong Kong in 1894, he discovered the plague bacillus, now called Yersinia in his honour, at the same time as Kitasato. He developed a serum against it, and founded two Pasteur Institutes in China. He also introduced the rubber tree into Indo-China. |
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