Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934)

Carlos Chagas

Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.

Born

1879

July 9

Died

1934

Era

1870s

Country

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Carlos, in brief

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1879 Born
1934 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

118 Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
381 The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
491 Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
551 A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.

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The world in 1934

When Carlos departed

april 12 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
april 12 The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.[citation needed]
april 21 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).
august 11 The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

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Also born in 1879

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879) Albert Asher 1879– New Zealand rugby player (died 1965) Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Annie Kenney 1879– leading British suffragette (died 1953) Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Boris Savinkov 1879– Russian soldier and author (died 1925) Edward Bruce 1879–1318 American lawyer and painter (died 1943) Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879) Joe Hill 1879–1915 Swedish-born American labor activist (born 1879)

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