Carlos Juan Finlay

Carlos Finlay

Carlos Juan Finlay de Barrés (born December 3, 1833 in Camagüey , Cuba , † August 20, 1915 in Havana ) was a Cuban doctor and scientist who discovered the mosquito as a carrier of yellow fever .

Career

Born Charles Finley, he changed his name to Carlos Juan Finlay. He studied at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in the USA in 1853 . In 1855 he took his exams and completed his studies in Havana and Paris . He settled in Cuba and opened a doctor's office there.

In 1865 Finlay sent a scientific article to the Cuban Academy of Sciences in which he worked out the connection between climatic conditions and the occurrence of yellow fever. While studying ancient Mayan manuscripts , it occurred to him that the disease could possibly be transmitted by mosquitoes. Finlay became famous for his proof that the mosquito is the vector of yellow fever. He recommended combating the mosquito as a measure to prevent the spread of yellow fever. It was not until 20 years after this discovery in 1881 that his findings became the basis for combating yellow fever.

Publications

Carlos Juan Finlay: Report for the Cuban Wiss. Academy. El mosquito hipotéticamente considerado como el agente propagador de la f. marilla (The mosquito, hypothetically considered to be the carrier of yellow fever), 1881.

Honors

Carlos Finlay was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905, 1906, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915 .

Finlay was inducted into the French Legion of Honor in 1908 .

From 1980 to 2005 UNESCO awarded the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology.

literature

William C. Gorgas : Dr. Carlos J. Finlay , in: American Journal of Public Health , American Public Health Association (New York, NY: 1912), Vol. 5, 11, 1915, pp. 1176-1178.
Pedro Laín Entralgo : Historia Universal de la Medicina , Vol. 7 Medicina actual , Salvat Ed. Barcelona 1975, p. 364.
William B. Bean: Finlay, Carlos Juan . In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography . tape 4 : Richard Dedekind - Firmicus Maternus . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1971, p. 619-620 .

Web links

Commons : Carlos Finlay - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Carlos Juan Finlay in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Carlos Juan Finlay Biography at faqs.org (English).

Carlos Juan Finlay Barrés in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

LF Haas: Carlos Juan Finlay y Barres (1833-1915). In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . Volume 65, number 2, August 1998, p. 268, PMID 9703188 , PMC 2170200 (free full text). (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Leopoldo Acuña: Carlos Juan Finlay , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich pp. 132 + 133, 2nd edition 2001 pp. 111 + 112, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 117 Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
^ Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague , Berkley Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-425-21775-7 , p. 216.

personal data
SURNAME	Finlay, Carlos Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Finlay de Barrés, Juan Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Camaguey , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1915
Place of death	Havana

[1] Leopoldo Acuña: Carlos Juan Finlay , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich pp. 132 + 133, 2nd edition 2001 pp. 111 + 112, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 117 Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

[2] Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague , Berkley Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-425-21775-7 , p. 216.