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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that ...
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), French physician and Nobel laureate, born in Paris, and educated at the School of Military Medicine at Strasbourg. As a member of the staff of the Val-de-Grâce military school of medicine he was sent to Algeria in 1878 to study malaria. In 1880 he discovered a malarial parasite in human red blood cells. In 1907, Laveran founded the Laboratory of Tropical Diseases at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. For his work on protozoa as causes of disease he received the 1907 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.