Laveran
[ lavuh-rahn ]
/ lavəˈrɑ̃ /
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noun
Charles Louis Al·phonse [sharl lwee al-fawns], /ʃarl lwi alˈfɔ̃s/, 1845–1922, French physician and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1907.
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Laveran
[ lăv′ə-räɴ′, läv-räɴ′ ]
French pathologist. He won a 1907 Nobel Prize for investigating the role of protozoa in the generation of disease.
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