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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

1845 - 1922

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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran has received more than 189,963 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran is the 39th most popular physician (down from 34th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from France (down from 386th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Physician.

Laveran is most famous for his discovery of the malaria parasite.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 39 out of 726. Before him are Qa'a, Al-Zahrawi, Marcello Malpighi, Alexis Carrel, Thutmose IV, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. After him are Polycarp, Virginia Apgar, Emil Kraepelin, Ambroise Paré, Hua Tuo, and Samuel Hahnemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 11. Before him are George I of Greece, Gabriel Lippmann, Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, Amadeo I of Spain, and Carl Spitteler. After him are Ludwig III of Bavaria, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Nikola Pašić, Edmond James de Rothschild, Paul Vidal de La Blache, and Ion Ivanovici. Among people deceased in 1922, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 7. Before him are Alexander Graham Bell, Marcel Proust, Pope Benedict XV, Charles I of Austria, Enver Pasha, and Erich von Falkenhayn. After him are Fredrik Bajer, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Hermann Rorschach, Walther Rathenau, Georges Sorel, and Djemal Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 441 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Moissan (1852), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Robert Campin (1375), Robert Delaunay (1885), Isabella of France (1295), and Albert Lebrun (1871). After him are Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Jean Genet (1910), Elisabeth of France (1602), and Hippolyte Taine (1828).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ranks 6. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Claude Bernard (1813), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), and Alexis Carrel (1873). After him are Ambroise Paré (1510), Hilary of Poitiers (315), René Laennec (1781), Philippe Pinel (1745), Karl Brandt (1904), and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805).

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