Yersin

American  

noun

1. Alexandre 1863–1943, Swiss-French bacteriologist.

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Yersin Scientific  

/ yĕr-sä′ /

1. French bacteriologist who, working with Émile Roux, isolated the toxin that causes the symptoms of diphtheria. Yersin later discovered the bacillus that causes bubonic plague and developed a serum to protect against it.

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Example Sentences

When Alexandre Yersin linked Y. pestis to bubonic plague in 1894, many scientists surmised that the pathogen was behind not only the Black Death, but also a spate of earlier mass die-offs.

From Nature • Oct. 26, 2011

Pasteur, Koch, Klebs, Roux and Yersin established the science of bacteriology, and between 1880 and 1900 the microbial origins of numerous diseases were demonstrated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus such men as Calmette, the discoverer of the serum treatment of serpent-poisoning, and Yersin, famous for his researches in the prevention and cure of cholera by inoculation, are "graduates" of the Pasteur Institute.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

I had two French lessons a week, and should have had at least one diction lesson besides, but for an invaluable course which I had taken in New York with the Yersin sisters.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen

It is caused by a specific bacillus isolated by Kitasato and Yersin in 1894.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin