List of Famous people with last name Yersin

Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin

First Name Alexandre

Last Name Yersin

Born on September 22, 1863

Died on March 1, 1943 (aged 79)

Born in Switzerland, Canton of Vaud

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin was a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier, but may have identified a different bacterium and not the pathogen-causing plague. 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.

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