• Thumbnail for Alexandre Yersin
    Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer...
    16 KB (1,896 words) - 11:18, 14 October 2024
  • The Lycée français Alexandre Yersin (LFAY) is a French international school in Long Bien District, Hanoi, Vietnam. It is directly operated by the Agency...
    7 KB (670 words) - 17:06, 26 July 2024
  • Alexander Yersin may refer to: Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist Alexander Yersin (entomologist) (1825–1863)...
    222 bytes (54 words) - 15:45, 27 December 2019
  • Thumbnail for Yersin Museum
    The Yersin Museum is a museum in Nha Trang, Vietnam. It is dedicated to Alexandre Yersin, the French-Swiss bacteriologist. It is located on 8 – 10 Tran...
    2 KB (142 words) - 12:56, 27 July 2024
  • Yersin may refer to: Alexander Yersin (entomologist) (1825–1863), Swiss entomologist Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist...
    683 bytes (118 words) - 12:01, 8 February 2019
  • filmmaker and journalist Alexandre Vauthier, French fashion designer Alexandre Vincendet (born 1983), French politician Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss-French...
    3 KB (317 words) - 06:17, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yersinia pestis
    by Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss/French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of the plague in Hong Kong. Yersin was...
    57 KB (6,445 words) - 08:44, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pasteur Institute
    and Alexandre Yersin discovered the mechanism of action of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and how to treat diphtheria with antitoxins Alexandre Yersin discovered...
    49 KB (5,704 words) - 08:58, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Da Lat
    the 1890s, explorers in the area (including the noted bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, protégé of the renowned French chemist Louis Pasteur), which was then...
    31 KB (2,460 words) - 14:12, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kitasato Shibasaburō
    in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin. Kitasato was nominated for the first annual Nobel Prize in Physiology...
    12 KB (1,292 words) - 09:03, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albert Calmette
    collaboration with the discoverer of its pathogenic agent, Yersinia pestis, by Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), and went to Portugal to study and to help fight a plague...
    15 KB (1,680 words) - 07:27, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dân Sinh Market
    or Yersin Market, is a retail market in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Located on Yersin Street (named after French microbiologist Alexandre Yersin), the...
    3 KB (199 words) - 00:16, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nha Trang
    the many famous Pasteur Institutes. The French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, discoverer of the Yersinia pestis bacterium lived in Nha Trang for...
    32 KB (2,906 words) - 00:51, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hanoi Medical University
    the name Indochina Medical College. The first headmaster of HMU was Alexandre Yersin who was the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic...
    5 KB (355 words) - 16:51, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Death
    pestis was discovered by Alexandre Yersin, a pupil of Louis Pasteur, during an epidemic of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894; Yersin also proved this bacterium...
    134 KB (14,422 words) - 20:41, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Vietnamese Nobel laureates and nominees
    (1912–2003), Rickard Sandler (1884–1964), and Sir Anthony Eden (1897–1977). Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist, has been living since...
    20 KB (960 words) - 22:33, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lycée Yersin
    secondary school. On 10 May 1935, it took the name Lycée Yersin in honor of Dr. Alexandre Yersin. When the governor-general Jules Brévié visited Da Lat...
    8 KB (869 words) - 00:26, 30 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Great Plague of London
    its causal agent, the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was identified by Alexandre Yersin, and its transmission by rat fleas became known. Although the Great...
    46 KB (6,369 words) - 20:43, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diphtheria
    the emergency diphtheric intubation method. In 1888, Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin showed that a substance produced by C. diphtheriae caused symptoms...
    55 KB (5,621 words) - 10:29, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bubonic plague
    [citation needed] It was during the 1894 Hong Kong plague outbreak that Alexandre Yersin isolated the bacterium responsible (Yersinia pestis), a few days after...
    54 KB (5,482 words) - 14:00, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Third plague pandemic
    Swiss-born French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin isolated the responsible bacterium (Yersinia pestis, named for Yersin) and determined the common mode...
    30 KB (3,301 words) - 02:18, 10 October 2024
  • médecine légale in Paris, an important text in forensic entomology. Alexandre Yersin and Kitasato Shibasaburō independently identify the bacterium later...
    8 KB (795 words) - 17:01, 16 June 2024
  • they acquire active immunity or vaccination. In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin showed that the clinical effects of diphtheria were caused by diphtheria...
    26 KB (2,574 words) - 13:57, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Hanoi Rat Massacre
    pandemic only a few years after Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin linked the spread of the pandemic to rodents. Today, the events are...
    52 KB (5,690 words) - 10:42, 23 October 2024
  • gained the ability to resist further infections. In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery by Behring...
    32 KB (3,601 words) - 17:36, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medicine
    William Coley, James D. Watson (United States); Salvador Luria (Italy); Alexandre Yersin (Switzerland); Kitasato Shibasaburō (Japan); Jean-Martin Charcot, Claude...
    89 KB (9,736 words) - 17:12, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of Marburg
    Sunao Tawara John Tyndall Wilhelm Walcher Alfred Wegener Georg Wittig Alexandre Yersin Karl Ziegler Theodor Zincke Adolf Fick Marburg was always known as...
    15 KB (1,302 words) - 01:06, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Émile Roux
    the Nobel Prize but never won. Also in 1883, Roux published, with Alexandre Yersin, the first of his classical works on the causation of diphtheria by...
    17 KB (1,886 words) - 21:43, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Epithelioid cell
    the epithelioid cells of tuberculosis. In experiments on rabbits, Alexandre Yersin (1888) and Amédée Borrel (1893) showed that epithelioid cells are formed...
    19 KB (2,118 words) - 07:53, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1894 Hong Kong plague
    At almost the same time, on June 15, French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, a member of the Pasteur Institute working in Saigon, arrived in Hong...
    35 KB (4,372 words) - 21:16, 27 October 2024