Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907, announced October 31, 1907. Alphonse Laveran, “in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases”. Alphonse Laveran: born 1845, Paris, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).