Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born 18 June 1845 in Paris to military doctor Louis Théodore Laveran and Marie-Louise Anselme Guénard de la Tour Laveran. He obtained his degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1867. He is best known for identifying the protozoan parasite Plasmodium as the causative agent of malaria in 1880, although this discovery was not widely accepted for several years due to the prevailing belief that the cause was bacterial. His work in tropical diseases earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907. He donated half of his prize to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. He died 18 May 1922. He was awarded honorary fellowship for the role he played during WWI.