Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French physician
- Fame57.7
- Momentum0.6
- France rank#103
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- Fame57.7
- Momentum0.6
- France rank#103
- Scientists rank#127
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Lived 1845–1922, aged 77France
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Updated 2026-06-08
He looked at blood under a microscope in Algeria and saw something moving — a parasite no one knew was there. That observation in 1880 cracked malaria, a disease that had killed without explanation for millennia, and earned him the Nobel Prize twenty-seven years later.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran followed his father into military medicine, earning his degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1867 and joining the French Army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. By 29 he held the Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce, but his breakthrough came after 1878 in Algeria, where he discovered that the protozoan parasite Plasmodium caused malaria and that Trypanosoma was responsible for African sleeping sickness. He returned to France in 1894, joined the Pasteur Institute in 1896 as Chief of the Honorary Service, an…
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