Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveranwas a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 June 1845
CountryFrance
among causes endemic europeans everywhere malaria takes tropical
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.