Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 was awarded to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran "in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"

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