Physician and parasitologist, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine, and became professor of military medicine and epidemic diseases at the military college of Val de Grâce (18748, 188494). In Algeria, he discovered the blood parasite which causes malaria (Plasmodium Laveraniae, 1880), and he also did important work on other diseases, including sleeping-sickness and kala-azar. From 1896 until his death he was at the Pasteur Institute at Paris. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) (sometimes spelled Alfons or Alfonse) was a French physician.
In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease.
Alphonse Laveran is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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