For almost my entire working career, I have been a clinical lab scientist (formerly known as a laboratory technologist), specializing in Microbiology. As such, I am well aware of the history of my profession and those scientists who were pioneers in the field. One such scientist was Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin who was the first to isolate the organism which causes bubonic and pneumonic plague. It was eventually named after him: Yersinia pestis. He is honored here on a stamp issued by the country of his birth
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