Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born on  June 18, 1845. He was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing  the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria. He also helped inspire researchers and veterinarians today to try to find a cure for malaria in animals. he died on May 18, 1922.