biography
| name: |
Nicolle, Charles (Jules Henri)
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pronunciation:
[neekol]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1936)
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| biography:
| Physician and bacteriologist, born in Rouen, NW France. A pupil of Louis Pasteur, he became director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis (1903), and professor at the Collège de France (1932). He discovered that the body louse is a transmitter of typhus fever, and in 1928 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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