Jean Laigret
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Jean Laigret (17 August 1893 – 11 March 1966) was a French biologist born in Blois.
Biography
He was a student of the École principale du service de Santé de la Marine at
suramine that were developed by chemist Ernest Fourneau
(1872–1949).
In 1927 he was appointed head of the laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in
Saigon, and soon afterwards was transferred to Dakar, where he was promoted to medical officer of hygiene (1928). The following year he became director of the laboratory in Bamako, then returned to France in 1930, where he was appointed instructor of microbiology
classes at the Pasteur Institute.
In 1932 he became head of the laboratory at the
febrile
reactions.
From 1935 to 1937 he taught classes at the faculty of medicine in Paris. In 1941 he was dismissed by the
Vichy government, subsequently becoming a lecturer at the faculty of medicine in Algiers, replacing Ernest Pinoy (1873–1948). In 1945 he returned to the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, then several years later, served as a professor of bacteriology and hygiene at the University of Strasbourg
(1950–60).
He died in
Loire-et-Cher
in 1966.
References
- France savantes, Prosopo (biography)
- Pasteur Institute Archives Repères chronologiques
- Time Magazine Mouse Brains v. Yellow Fever
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