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Laveran

American  
[lavuh-rahn] / lavəˈrɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Charles Louis Alphonse 1845–1922, French physician and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1907.


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“The work is harder, and takes longer” than for most other patients, said Pierre-Yves, head of the intensive care ward at the Laveran Military Training Hospital in Marseille.

From Washington Times • Oct. 9, 2020

At the turn of the twentieth century both Ronald Ross and Alphonse Laveran were separately recognized with the Nobel Prize for their contributions to our understanding of how malaria is transmitted from person to person.

From Scientific American • Jun. 11, 2013

Nov. 6, 1880 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon, detects parasites in the blood of malaria patients, which leads him to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2010

In 1880 Laveran had described an animal micro-organism, which preyed upon the red corpuscles of the blood, producing an attack of fever with the cycle of its existence.

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria

We may well wonder: Why did not Laveran simply recognize those sexual forms, and why did he not seek for the period of conjugation in the plasmodia, which were animal micro-organisms?

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria

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