Portrait of Charles Nicolle

Charles Nicolle

French microbiologist

Lived
1866–1936
Country
France

Updated September 2026

About Charles Nicolle

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

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