Alexandre Emile John Yersin (September 22, 1863-March 1, 1943) was a French-Swiss physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour ("Yersinia pestis"). Yersin was born in 1863 in Lavaux, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in a family originally from France. From 1883 to 1884, Yersin studied medicine at Lausanne, … Wikipedia
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In microbiology Yersin is best known for discovering the plague bacterium (called Yersinia pestis , in his honour). But behind the bacterium lies the man. Delve deeper into Yersin's biography and it soon becomes clear that, after his early conventional www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2003/yersin/
Alexandre Yersin was a French phycisian and bacteriologist. In 1894, the Institut Pasteur and the French Government asked Alexandre Yersin to go to Hong Kong to study a deadly plague epidemic coming from Mongolia. He succeeded to isolate the Bacillus re www.consulfrance-hongkong.org/spip.php?article1380
Yersin was born in 1863 in Lavaux , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland , in a family originally from France . From 1883 to 1884, Yersin studied medicine at Lausanne , Switzerland; and then at Marburg , Germany and Paris (1884-1886). In 1886, he entered Louis www.tripatlas.com/Alexander_Yersin
