Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (
1845-
1922) (sometimes spelled
Alfons or
Alfonse),
French physician who discovered that the cause of
malaria is a
protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of
disease. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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