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Alexandre Yersin
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Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin was a male French and Swiss physician, bacteriologist, explorer, and agronomist. Born in Aubonne in 1863, he was educated at the University of Lausanne and spoke French. His professional career included positions at the Pasteur Institute, Messageries Maritimes, and Hanoi Medical University. He worked in the fields of bacteriology, typhus, and typhus vaccine, and was influenced by Kitasato Shibasaburō and Louis Pasteur.
Yersin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and received several awards, including the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, the French Order of Academic Palms, and the Knight and Officer of the Legion of Honour. He was a member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer and the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He authored one work, *Essais d'acclimatation de l'arbre à quinquina en Indochine*. He died in Nha Trang in 1943 and was buried there.
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Essais d'acclimatation de l'arbre à quinquina en Indochine
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1863-09-22 ) 22 September 1863, Aubonne , Vaud , Switzerland
- Died
- 1 March 1943 (1943-03-01) (aged 79), Nha Trang , Annam , French Indochina
- Citizenship
- French
- Known for
- Yersinia pestis , Da Lat Plateau
- Awards
- Leconte Prize (1927)
- Fields
- Bacteriology
- Institutions
- École Normale Supérieure , Institut Pasteur
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexandre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Aubonne
- Place of death
- Nha Trang
- Occupation
- agronomist
- Educated at
- University of Lausanne
- Employer
- Hanoi Medical University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- typhus vaccine
- Image
- Yersin 1893 bis.jpg
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- Alexandre Yersin
- date of birth
- 1863-09-22
- date of death
- 1943-02-28
- birth name
- Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
- member of
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- place of burial
- Nha Trang
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- influenced by
- Louis Pasteur
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- Packard Patrician
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandre Émile John Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins (1890 with Émile Roux) and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague (1894, with Kitasato Shibasaburō). The bacteria was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.
Early life and education
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