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Also Known As Pierre-Paul-Émile Roux
Born December 17, 1853 • France
Died November 3, 1933 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1917)
Subjects Of Study diphtheria • tetanus

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Oswald Avery.
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Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
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Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
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Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
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Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
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