Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ( born June 18, 1845 in Paris, † May 18, 1922 ) was a French physician. He received in 1907 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Laveran dealt especially after his time as a medical officer with the tropical disease malaria and their triggers. In Algeria, he was able to isolate the first excitation in the blood of disease victims and to describe. This discovery brought him his first international fame. Later he worked with many other colleagues in the research of other pathogens, particularly on trypanosome. He dealt first with the trypanosomes in various animals such as birds, fish, turtles, cattle, and later also with those that cause diseases in humans, such as nagana and surra and especially the infamous sleeping sickness. Especially his work on Trypanosoma gambiense led to significant results.

Curriculum vitae

Laveran was born on 18 June 1845, son of military doctor and professor at the École de Val -de- Grâce, Louis Théodore Laveran, and his wife Marie -Louise Guénard Anselme de la Tour on today's Boulevard Saint- Michel in Paris. In 1863 he was enrolled at the School of General Medicine in Strasbourg and moved in 1866 to the general hospitals in the same city. In 1867 he completed a doctorate on the regeneration of nerves. In 1870, when the Franco-German War, Laveran was as a medical officer to Metz. He participated in the battle of Gravelotte and the victory in Metz.

In 1874 he was awarded the Department of Military and disease epidemics at the École de Val -de- Grâce, the earlier his father had held. 1878-1883 Laveran was sent to Bône in Algeria, where he began his studies on malaria. In 1882 he discovered the causative agent of malaria in his patients in Algeria blood, and presented them in Rome to the scientific community. In 1884 Laveran was Professor of Military Hygiene at the École de Val -de- Grâce. In 1889 he was awarded the Bréant Prize of the Academy of Sciences for the discovery of the causative agent of malaria. In 1894 he was leading medical officer at the military hospital in Lille, later Director of Health Services of the 11th Army Corps in Nantes. 1896-1907 worked Laveran at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. There he conducted research on various pathogens, especially about Haematozoa, trypanosomes and other single.

Alphonse Laveran in 1907 received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on the role of single-celled organisms (protozoa ) as pathogens. " Half of the prize money he established the Pasteur Institute for the expansion of the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine. In 1908 he founded the Société de pathology Exotique and remained for twelve years president of the association.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran in 1885 married Sophie Marie Pidancet. They had no children.

Works

• Trypanosomes et trypanosomiases: avec 61 Figure 1 et Planche. - Paris:. Masson, 1904 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf