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“The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.”

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Charles Nicolle
Charles Nicolle

Charles Nicolle was a French physician and public health scientist known for his contributions to bacteriology and the study of infectious diseases. In 1898, he discovered the Vibrio cholerae and proposed the famous Nicolle-Grenniest disinfection method. more

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