French army physician and parasitologist. Serving with the French Army Medical Corps in Constantine, Algeria, Laveran examined the blood of a malaria patient under a microscope on November 6, 1880, and observed moving, flagella-like structures emerging from pigmented bodies inside red blood cells, becoming the first person to identify a protozoan parasite as the cause of a human disease. His finding met skepticism for several years before wider acceptance. He was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the role of protozoa in disease.
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Why did Charles Laveran win the 1907 Nobel Prize?
For showing that parasitic protozoans cause infectious diseases such as malaria.
Laveran won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. He followed his father into military medicine and obtained his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1867.
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May 18, 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.
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