Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French physician
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French military doctor who nabbed the 1907 Nobel Prize for linking parasitic protozoans to malaria and sleeping sickness. Basically solved the "what's actually causing this" problem that had stumped medicine for centuries.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867.
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