Armand Frappier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian physician and microbiologist
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Place of Birth: Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
About Armand Frappier
- Armand Frappier, (November 26, 1904 – December 17, 1991) was a physician, microbiologist, and expert on tuberculosis from Quebec, Canada. Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, the son of Arthur-Alexis Frappier and Bernadette Codebecq, his mother died in 1923 from tuberculosis.
- This greatly affected him and he pursued a career devoted to fighting this tueuse de maman (mother killer).
- In 1924, he received a Bachelor of Arts and, in 1930, he received a medical degree from the Université de Montréal.
- In 1933, he obtained a Bachelor of Science also from the Université de Montréal. In 1938, he founded the Institut de microbiologie et d'hygiène de Montréal - following the model of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Connaught Laboratories of the University of Toronto (Malissard, 1998; 1999a, 1999b, 2000)- the first French-language school of hygiene in the world, and served as its director for 38 years.
- It was renamed Institut Armand-Frappier in 1975. He was instrumental in the fight against tuberculosis in Canada and as one of the first researchers to confirm the safety and usefulness of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine. In 1929, he married Thérèse Ostiguy.
- They had four children: Lise, Monique, Michèle, and Paul.
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