biography
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Laveran, (Charles Louis) Alphonse
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pronunciation:
[laverã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1922)
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| biography:
| Physician and parasitologist, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine, and became professor of military medicine and epidemic diseases at the military college of Val de Grâce (1874–8, 1884–94). In Algeria, he discovered the blood parasite which causes malaria (Plasmodium Laveraniae, 1880), and he also did important work on other diseases, including sleeping-sickness and kala-azar. From 1896 until his death he was at the Pasteur Institute at Paris. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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