Paul Remlinger (29 December 1871 – 9 March 1964) was a French physician and

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born in

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. He studied medicine at the Val de Grâce military hospital, supporting his doctoral thesis in 1893 at the

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with a study on the heredity of

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. In 1896 he became head of the

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laboratory in

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, followed by an assignment to the

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Imperial Bacteriology Institute (1900). Soon afterwards he succeeded Maurice Nicolle (1862-1932) as director of the institute. In 1914 he relocated to

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, where he served at the newly founded

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. He would be associated with the Tangier institute until his retirement in 1957. During

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he worked as a doctor at Argonne, where he performed research of

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with Julien Dumas (1884-1965). Remlinger was a leading authority on

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and rabies vaccination. In 1903 he demonstrated that the causative agent of rabies was a filterable virus. He was a

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of the ''

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'' (1903), the ''

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'' (1919) and the ''

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'' (1944). He was a full member of the ''Société de pathologie exotique'' (1934), and a founding member of the International Society for Microbiology (1927).

References

Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur
(translated biography) {{DEFAULTSORT:Remlinger, Paul French microbiologists People from Moselle (department) 1871 births 1964 deaths