René Rachou
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René Rachou
René Rachou was a Brazilian physician and researcher on malaria who was the director of the Institute of Malariology of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro. He also worked with the Pan-American Health Organization.[1] The Institute was moved to Belo Horizonte in 1955, and, after his death, in 1965, it was renamed Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou in his honor.[2]
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External links[]
- History of the René Rachou Research Center. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, in Portuguese.
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- 1917 births
- 1965 deaths
- People from Taubaté
- Brazilian tropical physicians
- Malariologists
- 20th-century Brazilian physicians
- 20th-century Brazilian scientists
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- Brazilian scientist stubs