1907 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
"in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"
--- http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1907
Quick Facts
"Laveran discovered the cause of malaria in the course of the autopsies he conducted on malaria victims. He found the causative organism to be a
protozoan which he named
Oscillaria malariae, though it was later renamed
Plasmodium."
See:
Robert Ross (also a Nobel laureate) who proved Laveran's discoveries.
Sources
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1907/
http://crishunt.8bit.co.uk/alphonse_laveran.html
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/oldnobel/laureates/medicine-1907-1-bio.html
1906 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal | 1908 Ilya Mechnikov