Jesse William Lazear 3013338 205593358 2008-04-14T17:38:07Z Plindenbaum 2796168 infobox+ref {{Infobox Scientist |name = Jesse William Lazear |box_width = |image =Lazear Jesse William 1866-1900.jpg |image_width =150px |caption = Jesse William Lazear |birth_date = [[2 May]] [[1866]] |birth_place = [[Baltimore]] |death_date = [[26 September]] [[1900]] |death_place = [[Quemados]], [[Cuba]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States|American]] |ethnicity = |field = |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Jesse William Lazear''' ([[2 May]] [[1866]], [[Baltimore]] - [[26 September]] [[1900]] in [[Quemados]], [[Cuba]]) was an [[United States|American]] physician<ref>{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:11613919 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11613919 |last=del Regato |first=J A |publication-date= |year=[[1986]] |title=Jesse William Lazear: the successful experimental transmission of yellow fever by the mosquito. |volume=2 |issue=6 |periodical=Medical heritage |pages=443-52 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:4556484 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4556484 |last=Carmichael |first=E B |publication-date=1972 Jan |year=[[1972]] |title=Jesse William Lazear. |volume=9 |issue=1 |periodical=The Alabama journal of medical sciences |pages=102-14 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:17797834 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17797834 |last=Osler |first= |last2=Paton |first2= |last3=Thayer |first3= |publication-date=1901 Aug 9 |year=[[1901]] |title=JESSE WILLIAM LAZEAR MEMORIAL. |volume=14 |issue=345 |periodical= |pages=225 |doi = 10.1126/science.14.345.225 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:17796027 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17796027 |publication-date=1900 Dec 14 |year=[[1900]] |title=JESSE WILLIAM LAZEAR. |volume=12 |issue=311 |periodical= |pages=932-933 |doi = 10.1126/science.12.311.932 }}</ref>. He was the son of William and Charlotte née Pettigrew. He attended [[Washington & Jefferson College]] <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200109/ai_n8978619 Biography of Jesse W. Lazear | Military Medicine | Find Articles at BNET.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[1889]] from [[Johns Hopkins University]] and his PhD in Medicine in [[1892]] from the Medical School at the [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]]. He did his specialization in [[Paris]] at the [[Institut Pasteur]]. In [[1896]] he married Mabel Houston with whom he had two children. He was a physician at the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] in [[Baltimore]] starting in [[1895]]; he studied [[malaria]] and [[yellow fever]]. In [[1900]] he reported for duty as the assistant surgeon at Columbia Barracks (Quemados) for the [[United States Army]]. After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with [[Walter Reed]] (1851-1902), [[James Carroll (scientist)|James Carroll]] (1854-1907) and [[Aristides Agramonte]] (1869-1931), participated in a commission studying the transmission of [[yellow fever]], the Yellow Fever Board. During his research at Camp Colombia, he discovered that [[mosquito]]s transmitted this disease. A portion of his study, though, had been conducted on himself: without telling his colleagues, he had allowed himself to be bitten by yellow fever-infected mosquitoes and died of the disease at age 34. A dormitory at Johns Hopkins University was named after him in honor of his sacrifice, as was the chemistry building at Washington & Jefferson College, Lazear's alma mater. == References == <references/> [[Category:1866 births|Lazear, Jesse]] [[Category:1900 deaths|Lazear, Jesse]] [[Category:Deaths from yellow fever|Lazear, Jesse]] [[Category:Cuban-Americans|Lazear, Jesse]] [[Category:American physicians|Lazear]] [[Category:Washington & Jefferson College alumni]] [[fr:Jesse William Lazear]] [[sv:Jesse Lazear]]