Villemin, Jean-Antoine

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Jean-Antoine Villemin (1827 – 1892) was a French physican. He was an army surgeon (reaching the rank of major) and was appointted Professor and Chief of Clinical Medicine at Val-de-Grâce military medical school. He undertook a programme of experiments demonstrating that tuberculosis was an infectious disease, although his work was largely ignored until Robert Koch identifed the bacterium.

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.