Alphonse Laveran was a French army physician who took advantage of his period of service in Algeria to study malaria, a disease known since ancient times and common in tropical and subtropical areas. Using very primitive technology, he discovered and...

Alphonse Laveran was a French army physician who took advantage of his period of service in Algeria to study malaria, a disease known since ancient times and common in tropical and subtropical areas. Using primitive technology, he discovered and...

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born on June 18, 1845, into a military family in Paris. He was the second child and only son of Louis-Theodore Laveran, a career military physician, and Marie-Louise Anselme Guénard de la Tour Laveran. Laveran...

1845-1922 French Physician, Military Surgeon and Parasitologist Alphonse Laveran was a French surgeon who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1907 for his discovery, and subsequent research, that disease could be spread by singlecell protozoa...

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) (sometimes spelled Alfons or Alfonse) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a...