Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born	18 June 1845(1845-06-18)
Died	18 May 1922(1922-05-18) (aged 76) Paris, France
Nationality	France
Known for	Trypanosomes, malaria
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1907)

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician.

In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.He also helped inspire the veternarians today find a cure for animals.^[1] This was the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease. He later worked on the trypanosomes, particularly sleeping sickness.^[2] For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Laveran is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

References

1. ^ Bruce-Chuvatt LJ (July 1981). "Alphonse Laveran's discovery 100 years ago and today's global fight against malaria". J R Soc Med 74 (7): 531–6. PMC 1439072. PMID 7021827. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1439072. 
2. ^ Haas LF (October 1999). "Neurological stamp. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922)". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 67 (4): 520. doi:10.1136/jnnp.67.4.520. PMC 1736558. PMID 10486402. http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10486402. 

• Nye, Edwin R (2002). "Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): discoverer of the malarial parasite and Nobel laureate, 1907.". Journal of medical biography 10 (2): pp. 81–7. 2002 May. PMID 11956550. 
• Garnham, P C (1967). "Presidential address: reflections on Laveran, Marchiafava, Golgi, Koch and Danilewsky after sixty years.". Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 61 (6): pp. 753–64. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(67)90030-2. PMID 4865951. 
• CDC profile

External links

• Biography Nobelprize.org
• Nobel Lecture

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Name	Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse
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Date of birth	18 June 1845
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	18 May 1922
Place of death	Paris, France