Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) (sometimes spelled Alfons or Alfonse) was a Frenchphysician. From [1] This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... From [1] This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... May 18 the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Physician examining a child A physician is a person who practices medicine. ...
In 1880, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease. In 1901 he described the trypanosomes of the mal de calderas. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria, derived from male aria (Italian for bad air) and formerly called ague or marsh fever in English, is an infectious disease which causes about 350-500 million infections with humans and approximately 1. ... Protozoa (in Greek proto = first and zoa = life) are single-celled eukaryotes (organisms with nuclei) that show some characteristics usually associated with animals, most notably mobility and heterotrophy. ... A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ... Genera Blastocrithidia Crithidia Endotrypanum Herpetomonas Leishmania Leptomonas Phytomonas Trypanosoma Wallaceina The trypanosomes are a group of kinetoplastid protozoa, which are exclusively parasitic. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...
Between 1884 and 1894 Laveran returned to the Val-de-Grâce as professor of military hygiene but, when that appointment ended, the military authorities, with a total lack of imagination, could devise nothing better for him than routine posts as director of military hospitals at Lille and Nantes.
Laveran resigned from the army in disgust and went to the Institut Pasteur where he was welcomed with open arms.
As well as being a fellow of the Academie des Sciences and being awarded the Légion d'Honneur, Laveran was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1907 won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
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