a French physician, discoverer of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis
Born
18 June 1845 Paris, France
Died
18 May 1922 (aged 76) Paris, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Trypanosomiasis, malaria
Fields
Tropical medicine Parasitology
Alma mater
University of Strasbourg
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1907)
Institutions
School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grâce Pasteur Institute
Spouse(s)
Sophie Marie Pidancet
adultbasic
France
era
1800+