Used stamp commemorating Alexandre John Emile Yersin, issued by Switzerland, showing head of Yersin; postmarked 6 1971 13; black brown olive ink; no watermark; designers: Gabriel Humair Max Müller (E); perforation: comb 11 3/4; paper: phosphorescent; face value: 10 Ct. - Swiss centime
Used stamp commemorating Alexandre John Emile Yersin, issued by Switzerland, showing head of Yersin; postmarked 6 1971 13; black brown olive ink; no watermark; designers: Gabriel Humair
Max Müller (E); perforation: comb 11 3/4; paper: phosphorescent; face value: 10 Ct. - Swiss centime
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, before July 15, 1995.
Gould's Pocket Pronouncing Medical Dictionary, 1927; 1988 Encyclopedia America; Wikipedia
Research Facts
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburo, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmissio
Yersin discovered Yersinia pestis, the bacillus responsible for causing the bubonic plage - codiscoverer was Kitasato; Alexander Emile John Yersin was a Swiss bacteriologist who discovered the plague bacillus in 1894, the same time Kitasato Shibashaburo did independently working during the 1894 epidemic in Hong Kong