Alphonse Laveran Physician

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907

Physician. "protozoa cause diseases." Malarial parasite discovery received with skepticism. Sleeping sickness. Trypanosomes in different animals, countries. 1914-1918 concern: troops’ health.

“After vain attempt to detect parasite in air, water, soil; cultivate in varied media, I became convinced: microbe was already present outside human body as parasite, probably of mosquitoes.”

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, with half of his Nobel Prize cash, founded the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. The Nobel Prize was awarded to him when he was working at the institute.