Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (1866-1936)

Awarded the Prize “for his work on typhus.”

French bacteriologist. Nicolle was born on September 21, 1866 in Rouen, France. He received his M.D. degree at Paris in 1893, then he became a member of the Medical Faculty and in 1896 he was appointed Director of the Bacteriological Laboratory. He continued in this capacity until 1903 when he was appointed Director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis. Nicolle died on February 28, 1936 in Tunis, Tunisia.