Mesnil, Félix
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| Birthname | Félix Étienne Pierre Mesnil | ||||
| born on | 12 December 1868 at 23:00 (= 11:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Omonville-la-Petite, France, 49n42, 1w5259 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m1w5259 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   21°17'  08°05 Asc. 13°23'
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Biography
French zoologist, biologist, botanist, mycologist and algologist. He worked at the Pasteur Institute as an assistant of Louis Pasteur, conducting studies on cellular immunity, physiology and comparative pathology in the laboratory of Ilya Ilyich Metchnikov (1845–1916).
In 1903, together with Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), he showed that the parasite responsible for the visceral leishmaniasis (or "Kala-azar", a fever in India), first described by William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), is a new protozoa, different from Trypanosoma, the agent of the sleeping sickness, and from Plasmodium, the agent of paludism (malaria). In 1920, he and Émile Roubaud achieved the first experimental infection of chimpanzees with Plasmodium vivax.
He founded the Pasteur Institute Bulletin with Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962), Alexandre Besredka (1870–1940), Amédée Borrel (1867–1936), Camille Delezenne (1868–1932) and Auguste-Charles Marie (1864–1935).
He died on 15 February 1938 in Paris.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Bertrand, Gabriel (born 17 May 1867). Notes: Co-founded Pasteur Institute Bulletin
- associate relationship with Delezenne, Camille (born 6 October 1868). Notes: Co-founded Pasteur Institute Bulletin
- associate relationship with Pasteur, Louis (born 27 December 1822)
Events
Source Notes
Grazia Bordoni's Science database quotes Gauquelin.
Categories
- Vocation : Education : Researcher
- Vocation : Science : Biology (Zoologist, botanist, mycologist, algologist)
