Émile Roubaud

Émile Roubaud (2 March 1882 in Paris – 30 September 1962 in Paris) was a French biologist and entomologist known for his work on paludism, yellow fever and sleeping sickness.

Émile Roubaud (1882–1962)

Biography

In 1906-08 he worked in the French Congo, where he studied the transmission of trypanosomiasis and the role of tsetse flies. In 1909-12 he took part in a mission in Senegal, Casamance and Dahomey, where he performed research of animal trypanosomiasis. On this mission he conducted geographical distribution studies of nine tsetse fly species.^[1]

In 1920, he and Félix Mesnil achieved the first experimental infection of chimpanzees with Plasmodium vivax.^[2]

He made his career at Pasteur Institute — from 1914 to 1958 he was director of a research laboratory for medical entomology and pest biology at the institute. Here, he also taught classes in medical entomology.^[1]

He was president of the Société entomologique de France in 1927 and a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1938. In 1936 he was named president of the Société de pathologie exotique.^[3] He is a recipient of the Montyon Prize.

Selected works

• La Glossina palpalis, sa biologie, son rôle dans l'étiologie des Trypanosomiases, 1909 (doctoral thesis); Glossina palpalis, its biology, its role involving the etiology of trypanosomiasis.
• La maladie du sommeil au Congo français, 1909 (in collaboration with G. Martin and A. Lebœuf) – Sleeping sickness in the French Congo.
• Études sur la faune parasitique de l’Afrique occidentale française, 1914 – Studies of parasitic fauna in French West Africa.^[3]

See also

• History of malaria