Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran 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 his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Laveran's drawing in his 1880 notebook showing different stages of Plasmodium falciparum from fresh blood.
Cartoon of Laveran slaying insects
Grave at Cimetière du Montparnasse
The University of Strasbourg is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Jean Sturm, it was an intellectual hotbed during the Age of Enlightenment.
Palais Universitaire, main building of the former Imperial University of Strasbourg
Johannes Sturm founder of the university, 1539
Grand hall of the University Palace, where the first session of the Council of Europe Assembly took place
The Gallia building, formerly Germania, seat of the Regional Student's Service Centre
