Carlos Chagas
1879 – 1934 · Brazil · Medicine, Biology
Described a disease, its parasite and its vector single-handedly.
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- Louis Pasteur
1822 – 1895 · Chemistry, Medicine
Pasteurian microbiology is the method Chagas applied to trypanosomiasis.
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