Word: roux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (in which Dr. Calmette is the senior professor of microbiology and assistant director) and to become director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille...
...white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...
Concluding a professional estimate of The Medical Work of Pasteur, wrote M. Emile Roux, Director of the Pasteur Institute (Paris) : "The work of Pasteur is admirable. It shows his genius, but one must have lived intimately with the master to know of the goodness of his heart...
...Paris, Professor Albert Calmette, Assistant Director of the Pasteur Institute, "a man of eminence and discretion," stepped to the lectern of the Academy of Medicine. Before him sat distinguished savants, among them Mme. Curie and Prof. Pierre Roux. From his quiet, austere laboratory Calmette had brought with him papers that were the fruit of 20 years' patient inconspicuous labor. Calmette read, finished, the chamber vibrated with vociferous applause...