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Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y de Barrés in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba to Scottish-born Dr. Edward (Eduardo) Finlay and French-born Elisa (Isabel) de Barrés. [2] At that time Cuba was part of the Kingdom of Spain.
carrier. yellow fever. Carlos J. Finlay (born Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) 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.
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Becoming a Doctor. Finlay was born in Cuba on December 3, 1833. His father, Edward, a Scottish-born physician, and his mother, Eliza, a native of France, educated him at home and later enrolled...
Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey, Cuba, on December 3, 1833. He was one of seven children born to Edward Finlay, a Scottish physician who hadfought alongside Simon Bolivar, and Eliza Isabel, née deBarrés,a French woman. The family owned a large coffee plantation in Guanimar, in the Alquizar region of Cuba.
May 11, 2018 · Havana, Cuba, 20 August 1915) medicine. Finlay was the son of a Scotch father and a French mother whose family lived in Trinidad. An aunt who had a school in Edinburgh taught him at home until he was eleven; he then went to France for further, more formal schooling.
May 16, 2023 · UNESCO. Born on 3 December 1833 in Puerto Príncipe (today's city of Camagüey) in a French-Scottish family, Carlos J. Finlay studied at some of the most prestigious schools and institutes in the world. After receiving his primary education at home, his parents sent him to France to pursue his studies.
Finlay Family - ALLIANCE OF MINORITY PHYSICIANS. Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba in 1833. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 1855, he subsequently returned to Cuba to open his own medical practice.
