2-364-946 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Alphonse Laveran, French physician, 1917. In 1880 Laveran (1845-1922) made the discovery that malaria were caused by protozoa. For this, and his later work on sleeping sickness, he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1850-1950.