Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Lavéran , born with Paris the June 18th 1845 and died in Paris the May 18th 1922, is a military Médecin and parasitologist French, pioneer of the tropical Médecine, known to have discovered, in 1880, the parasite Protozoaire responsible for the Paludisme. For the first time was highlighted that the protozoa could be the cause of diseases.

In 1901 it described the trypanosomes evil of will calderas.

In 1907, it receives the Nobel Prize physiology and of medicine for its work and the discovery of the diseases caused by protozoa.

Member of the Academy of medicine, it is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1901 and foreign member of the Royal Society in 1916.

Works

  • Treated diseases and epidemics of the armies (1875)
  • Treated paludous fevers with the description of the microbes of paludism (1884)
  • Trypanosomes and trypanosomiasis (1904)

Place named in its honor

External bonds

  • Obituary of the Professor Laveran
  • Thesis of Laveran digitized by the SCD of [[University Louis Pasteur] of Strasbourg] the

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