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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1900s (57) 1907 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1840s (20) 1845 (6) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) France (55) Paris (22) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1920s (25) 1922 (2) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) France (51) Paris (25) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) C (45) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) L (47) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) C (27) Charles (12) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 63 (25) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations (70) Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners (69) Physicians (65) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) France (60) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) France (32) Paris (23) Institut Pasteur (6) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) France (92) Strasbourg (20) University of Strasbourg (20) Alumni (12) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, western (50) France (23) Paris (21) Lycée Louis-le-Grand (7) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Académie Nationale de Médecine (34) E-P (571) F (89) French Academy of Sciences (89) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Cothenius Medal (11) complete name: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran nobel prize: medicine award year: 1907 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 was awarded to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran "in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Charles family name: Laveran occupation: physician occupation: professor occupation: microbiologist field of work: medicine field of work: malaria description: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran 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 profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. At the age of 29 he became Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce. At the end of his tenure in 1878 he worked in Algeria, where he made his major achievements. He discovered that the protozoan parasite (Plasmodium) was responsible for malaria, and that Trypanosoma caused trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness. In 1894 he returned to France to serve in various military health services. In 1896 he joined Pasteur Institute as Chief of the Honorary Service, from where he received the Noble Prize. He donated half of his Nobel money to establish Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. In 1908 he founded the Société de Pathologie Exotique. Laveran was elected to French Academy of Sciences in 1893, and was conferred Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 1912. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1907/summary/> date birth: 1845 date death: 1922 usual name: Charles Laveran
