Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
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![Laveran's drawing in his 1880 notebook showing different stages of Plasmodium falciparum from a fresh blood.](/Images/godic/202501/23/Laveran_Malaria_drawings2957.jpg")
![Grave at Cimetière du Montparnasse](/Images/godic/202501/23/Tombe_Alphonse_Laveran,_Cimetière_du_Montparnasse2957.jpg")
![Commemorative plaque at the Château à Strasbourg](/Images/godic/202501/23/Plaque_Alphonse_Laveran_à_Strasbourg2957.jpg")
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) 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.