The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907
Awarded on: 1907-10-31
"in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"
Affiliations:
- Institut Pasteur – Paris, France
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born: 1845-06-18 in Paris, France
Gender: male
Field: French physician (1845–1922)
Biography
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was 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 his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867.