Alexandre emile jean yersin biography
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Alexandre Yersin
Swiss-born French physician and microbiologist
Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-Frenchphysician and bacteriologist.
Alexandre emile jean yersin biography
He is remembered as the co-discoverer (1894) of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier.
Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.
Early life and education
Yersin was born in 1863 in Aubonne, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, as the posthumous son of Jean-Alexandre-Marc Yersin from his wife Fanny-Isaline-Emilie Moschell.[1] From 1883 to 1884 he studied medicine at Lausanne, followed by Marburg, and Paris (1884–1886).