Charles Nicolle

Dr. Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 - February 28, 1936) was a bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

Accomplishments

Dr. Nicolle's most major accomplishments in bacteriology were:

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• His discovery of the transmission method of typhus fever
• His introduction of a vaccination for Malta fever
• His discovery of the transmission method of tick fever
• His studies of cancer, scarlet fever, rinderpest, measles, influenza, tuberculosis and trachoma.

During his life Nicolle wrote a number of non-fiction and bacteriology books, including Le Destin des Maladies infectieuses; La Nature, conception et morale biologiques; Responsabilités de la Médecine, and La Destinée humaine.

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