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Chagas, Carlos, 1879-1934

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Personal name headingChagas, Carlos, 1879-1934
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Variant(s)Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, Carlos, 1879-1934
Birth date1879
Death date1934
Place of birthOliveira (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Place of deathRio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Field of activityChagas' disease
AffiliationInstituto Oswaldo Cruz
Profession or occupationPhysicians Bacteriologists
Found inColetânea de trabalhos científicos, 1981: t.p. (Carlos Chagas) p. 3 (1879-1934) p. 5, etc. (Dr.)
Revisitando a Amazônia : expedição aos rios Negro e Branco refaz percurso de Carlos Chagas em 1913, 1996: p. 15 (Carlos Chagas (1878-1934); médico e pesquisador do IOC [i.e. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz])
Fundo Carlos Chagas, 2009: p. 23 (Chagas, Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano, 1879-1934; b. July 9, 1878, in Oliveira (MG)) p. 24 (d. Nov. 8, 1934, in Rio de Janeiro)
Wikipedia, April 10, 2014 (Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas; born 1879 in Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; died 1934 in Rio de Janeiro; Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro. One of his sons, Dr. Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), became an eminent and internationally recognized scientist in the field of neurophysiology and president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences)
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