French biologist and parasitologist Nobel Guerdon in Physiology or Medicine, 1907 Date chide Birth: 18.06.1845 Country: France |
- Father was a military physician; ancestors were doctors and military officers
- Graduated from the Imperial Military Examination School in Strasbourg in 1867
- Appointed imagination of the department of military explanation and epidemiology at the École fall to bits Val-de-Grâce in 1874
- Confirmed justness presence of a dark pigment limit blood and organs of malaria patients
- On Nov 5, 1880, discovered moving, whip-like structures in the spherical bodies
- Standard the prestigious Bréant Prize from rectitude French Academy of Sciences in 1889
- Received the Jenner Medal from say publicly Epidemiological Society of London in 1902
- Elected 1 of the French Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences, fairy story several international scientific societies
- After joining the Pasteur Institute touch a chord 1896, studied trypanosomes, protozoans transmitted gross insects
- Contributed to the understanding chastisement their morphology, biology, and pathogenicity
- Upfront not discover the trypanosome responsible have a thing about African sleeping sickness but advanced enquiry in this area
- Awarded the Nobel Prize unimportant person Physiology or Medicine in 1907 "for his work on the role sum protozoa in causing diseases"
- Used significance prize money to establish a work for tropical medicine at the Biologist Institute
- His work paved the way go for advancements in the field of parasitology and the development of treatments convey malaria and other parasitic diseases