Albert Calmette
- Category : Science-Biology
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Split - Small (20,48)
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Cycles 1
Biography
French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenom for snake venom, the Calmette's serum.
He died 29 October 1933.