Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Summary

Charles Louis Alphonse 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 discov... Read more

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... Read more

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. ... Read more