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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

1845 - 1922

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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) 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. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran is the 28th most popular physician (up from 39th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from France (up from 441st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Physician.

Laveran is most famous for his discovery of the malaria parasite.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 28 out of 726. Before him are Cesare Lombroso, Georgius Agricola, Cyril of Alexandria, Michael Servetus, Allvar Gullstrand, and Al-Zahrawi. After him are John Snow, Alois Alzheimer, Christiaan Eijkman, Willem Einthoven, Qa'a, and Li Ching-Yuen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 9. Before him are Ludwig II of Bavaria, Gabriel Lippmann, Georg Cantor, Gabriel Fauré, George I of Greece, and Élie Metchnikoff. After him are Amadeo I of Spain, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Spitteler, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, George Reid, and Nikola Pašić. Among people deceased in 1922, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 6. Before him are Pope Benedict XV, Alexander Graham Bell, Marcel Proust, Charles I of Austria, and Fredrik Bajer. After him are Enver Pasha, Erich von Falkenhayn, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ernest Shackleton, Djemal Pasha, and Hermann Rorschach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 305 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Fourier (1772), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Alfred Werner (1866), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Claude Lorrain (1600), and Oscar I of Sweden (1799). After him are Victor Grignard (1871), Gilles de Rais (1405), Robert II of France (972), Josquin des Prez (1450), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), and Jean Gabin (1904).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 2. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875). After him are Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Claude Bernard (1813), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Nicolle (1866), Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510).

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