Flashcards: French microbiologists

Émile Duclaux (24 June 1840 – May 2, 1904) was a French microbiologist and chemist born in Aurillac, Cantal.

Edmond Isidore Etienne Nocard (29 January 1850 – 2 August 1903), was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, born in Provins (Seine-et-Marne, France).

Jean Laigret (17 August 1893 – 11 March 1966) was a French biologist born in Blois.

Liliane Aimée Ackermann (née Weil) (1938–2007) was a French Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer.

Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923 – 11 March 2013) was a French parasitologist, mainly a specialist of nematodes and sporozoa.

Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (July 31, 1823 – July 25, 1899) was a French embryologist born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

From 1882 to 1888 Loir was an assistant in Pasteur's laboratory in Paris, where he performed research on swine fever.

Octave Gengou (27 February 1875, Ouffet – 25 April 1957, Brussels) was a Belgian bacteriologist.

André Marcel Voisin (7 January 1903 – 21 December 1964) was a French biochemist, farmer and author best known for developing the theory of Rational Grazing (also known as Voisinism, Voisin Grazing or Rational Intensive Grazing).

From 1880 to 1885 he served as interne des hôpitaux in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1884 with a dissertation on adult tuberculous meningitis titled Étude sur la méningite tuberculeuse de l'adulte : les formes anormales en particulier.

Émile Marchoux (24 March 1862 - 19 August 1943) was a French physician and biologist born in Saint-Amant-de-Boixe, Charente.

Philippe J. Sansonetti, MS, MD, (born 1949) is a microbiologist, Professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France in Paris.

Pascale Cossart (born 21 March 1948) is a bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.

Maurice Nicolle (1 March 1862 – 20 August 1932) was a French physician and microbiologist born in Rouen.

René Dujarric de la Rivière (19 April 1885 – 28 November 1969) was a French microbiologist and hygienist.