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cimetière du montparnasse 18 may 1922 paris , france paris , france 220px 48.84 2.33 type : landmark inline , title france tropical medicine parasitology school of military medicine of val-de-grâce pasteur institute 18 june 1845 trypanosomiasis , malaria sophie marie pidancet nobel prize in physiology or medicine -lrb- 1907 -rrb- charles laveran nobel.jpg charles louis alphonse laveran
 charles louis alphonse laveran university of strasbourg
charles louis alphonse laveran

charles louis alphonse laveran -lrb- 18 june 1845 -- 18 may 1922 -rrb- 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 -lrb- `` plasmodium '' -rrb- 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 .
