Félix d'Herelle (April 25, 1873 – February 22, 1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist, the co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy.
D'Herelle was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of French emigrants. His father, 30 years older than his wife, died when Félix was 6 years old. Félix, his mother and his younger brother Daniel, moved back to Paris. When sixteen years ol...
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Félix d'Herelle (April 25, 1873 – February 22, 1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist, the co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy.
D'Herelle was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of French emigrants. His father, 30 years older than his wife, died when Félix was 6 years old. Félix, his mother and his younger brother Daniel, moved back to Paris. When sixteen years old, he started to travel through western Europe on bike. When 17, after finishing school (he attended the Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis-le-Grand high schools), he travelled through South America. Afterwards, he continued his travels through Europe, including Turkey, where he met his wife, Marie Caire.
At age 24, now father of a daughter, he and his family moved back to Canada. He built a home laboratory and studied microbiology from books and his own experiments. He earned money by working for the Canadian government, studying the...
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