Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866-1936), a French bacteriologist, won the 1928 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery that the disease typhus is transmitted by the body louse. See more »

Calmette, Albert (1863-1933), a French bacteriologist, worked to improve public health through research and vaccination programs. See more »

Yersin, Alexandre (1863-1943) was a Swiss-born French bacterilogists who first identified the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, a serious infectious disease. See more »

Lwoff, André (1797-1875), a French microbiologist, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod. See more »

Cuvier, (French: kü'vyā'), Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert (1769--1832), a French naturalist. See more »

Richet, Charles Robert (1850-1935) was a French physiologist, a scientist who studies how living things function. See more »

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de (1744-1829), a French naturalist. See more »

Bernard, Claude (1813-1878), the leading French physiologist of his day, was the founder of modern experimental physiology. See more »

Jacob, Frančois (1920-) is a French biochemist and geneticist. He received the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his contributions to scientific knowledge of the fundamental processes in living matter that form the bases for such biological principles as adaptation, reproduction, and evolution. See more »

Chardonnet, Hilaire (1839-1924) was a French chemist and physiologist who invented a technique for extruding cellulose nitrate into a manufactured fiber, which became known as rayon. See more »