Victor Morax
Victor Morax (born March 16, 1866 in Morges , † May 14, 1935 in Paris ; resident in Mex , later naturalized in France ) was an ophthalmologist and scientist.
Life
Victor Morax grew up with his brothers Jean and René as the son of a canton doctor. He studied medicine in Paris and received his doctorate in 1892. He continued his life in Paris, first at the Pasteur Institute and as an attending physician at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière , where Jean Martin Charcot also worked. He later trained as an ophthalmologist at the Hôpital Lariboisière and then headed the ophthalmological department of the hospital until his retirement in 1929.
Morax achieved worldwide fame with his research on bacterial eye diseases and trachoma , the results of which were published in 1929. The bacteria genus Moraxella was named after him. He was editor of the Annales d'oculistique and belonged to the Medical Academy of France.
Web links
- Vincent Barras: Morax, Victor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morax, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morges |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1935 |
| Place of death | Paris |