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.

Biography

Born in Rouen, France, Charles learned about biology early from his father Eugène Nicolle, a doctor at a Rouen hospital. He received his M.D. in 1893 from the Pasteur Institute. At this point he returned to Rouen, as a member of the Medical Faculty until 1896 and then as Director of the Bacteriological Laboratory.

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Rouen - France - Doctor - 1893 - Pasteur Institute - 1896

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In 1903 Nicolle became Director of the Pasteur Institute, where he did his Nobel Prize-winning work on typhus. He was still director of the Institute when he died in 1936.

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1903 - Nobel Prize - 1936

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He also wrote fiction and philosophy through his life, including the books Le Pâtissier de Bellone, Les deux Larrons, and Les Contes de Marmouse.

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He married Alice Avice in 1895, and had two children, Marcelle Nicolle (b. 1896) and Pierre Nicolle (b. 1898).

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Alice Avice - 1895 - 1896 - 1898

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