biography
| name: |
Roux, (Pierre Paul) Emile
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pronunciation:
[roo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1933)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Confolens, C France. He studied at Clermont-Ferrand, became assistant to Pasteur, and was appointed his successor (1905–18). In 1894 he helped to discover diphtheria antitoxin, and also worked on rabies and anthrax. |
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