c l alphonse laveran

La·ve·ran

[lavuh-rahn]
noun
Charles Louis Al·phonse [sharl lwee al-fawns] , 1845–1922, French physician and bacteriologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1907.
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Laveran La·ve·ran (lāv'ə-räɴ', läv-räɴ'), Charles Louis Alphonse. 1845-1922.

French pathologist. He won a 1907 Nobel Prize for investigating the role of protozoa in the generation of disease.

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