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Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Establishing a general medical and ophthalmology practice in Havana, Finlay spent much of his free time on scientific investigation, including the study of yellow fever.
Carlos J. Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist who discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito. Although he published experimental evidence of this discovery in 1886, his ideas were ignored for 20 years.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 11, 2018 · The Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) discovered that certain mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Province on Dec. 3, 1833, of a Scottish father and a French mother.
Finlay, Carlos. Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) was born in Cuba of European parents. He was sent to the Continent at the age of eleven for boarding school and then arrived in 1853 at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia to earn his medical degree.
Carlos Juan Finlay ( b. 3 December 1833; d. 20 August 1915), a Cuban physician and epidemiologist. After earning his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Finlay pursued additional studies in Havana and Paris before beginning his medical practice in Cuba.
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Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist famed for pioneering research on yellow fever, including determination that it was transmitted through mosquitoes. He was born in 1833 to a Scottish born physician father and a French born mother.
