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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. Finlay studied medicine in Philadelphia at the Jefferson Medical College and graduated in 1855.
May 16, 2023 · Carlos J. Finlay. Last update:16 May 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.
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.
Oct 30, 2006 · The brilliance of Carlos Finlay, the dedication of Walter Reed, and the sacrifice of Jesse Lazear spared the United States the suffering and fear that once made Yellow Jack the nation's most ...
The method by which yellow fever spread was proposed by Dr. Carlos Finlay (1833-1915), a Cuban physician. It took twenty more years for the Reed Board (Army Surgeon Walter Reed) to definitively prove Finlay’s theory that the disease was carried by the mosquito. Once scientists understood this, they could move forward to reduce the incidence ...
Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) JMC Class of 1855. Finlay’s greatest triumph was his identification, in 1881, of the mosquito as the carrier of yellow fever. His hypothesis was proven nearly twenty years later by the Walter Reed Commission of 1900.
the Government of Cuba and UNESCO have established a prize in honour of one of the most important microbiologists in history: Carlos J. Finlay (Camagüey, 3 December 1833 – La Havana, 20 August 1915). His innovative research on infectious diseases and especially his work on yellow fever have had huge benefits for human kind.
