Alexandre Yersin
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- Born
- 1863-09-22
- Died
- 1943-02-28
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Essais d'acclimatation de l'arbre à quinquina en Indochine
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,461x
- pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
· 2011 · cited 11,408x
- Universal sample preparation method for proteome analysis
· 2009 · cited 7,583x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,179x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1863-09-22 ) 22 September 1863, Aubonne , Vaud , Switzerland
- Died
- 1 March 1943 (1943-03-01) (aged 79), Nha Trang , Annam , French Indochina
- Citizenship
- French
- Known for
- Yersinia pestis , Da Lat Plateau
- Awards
- Leconte Prize (1927)
- Fields
- Bacteriology
- Institutions
- École Normale Supérieure , Institut Pasteur
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Key dates
- Born
- 22 September 1863
- Died
- 28 February 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexandre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Aubonne
- Place of death
- Nha Trang
- Occupation
- biologist
- Educated at
- University of Lausanne
- Employer
- Hanoi Medical University
- Languages spoken
- French
Article
Alexandre Émile John Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins (1890 with Émile Roux) and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague (1894, with Kitasato Shibasaburō). The bacteria was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. 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