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Alexandre Yersin
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Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin was a French and Swiss physician, bacteriologist, explorer, and agronomist. Born in Aubonne in 1863, he was educated at the University of Lausanne and spoke French. His professional career included employment at the Pasteur Institute, Messageries Maritimes, and Hanoi Medical University. He was influenced by Louis Pasteur and Kitasato Shibasaburō. Yersin worked in the fields of bacteriology, typhus, and typhus vaccines, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He held memberships in the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer and the Académie Nationale de Médecine. Yersin received several honors, including the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, the French Order of Academic Palms, and the ranks of Knight and Officer of the Legion of Honour. One of his published works is *Essais d'acclimatation de l'arbre à quinquina en Indochine*. He died in Nha Trang in 1943 and is buried there.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Essais d'acclimatation de l'arbre à quinquina en Indochine
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Sunderland
Discography
- Vulgarians EP2018
- Guilt2020
- The Scythe Is Remorseless2024
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 21
- Cited by
- 908
Research areas
Most cited works
- Gradient of Rigidity in the Lamellipodia of Migrating Cells Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy2005 · 172 cit
- Superficial and deep changes of cellular mechanical properties following cytoskeleton disassembly2005 · 155 cit
- La peste bubonique a Hong-kong1894 · 124 cit
- Interactions between NEEP21, GRIP1 and GluR2 regulate sorting and recycling of the glutamate receptor subunit GluR22005 · 110 cit
- Interactions between synaptic vesicle fusion proteins explored by atomic force microscopy2003 · 91 cit
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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 15,971x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,136x
- pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
· 2011 · cited 11,863x
- Universal sample preparation method for proteome analysis
· 2009 · cited 7,713x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,466x
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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
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