Roux, Pierre Paul Émile

Suzanne Board, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002546

(1853–1933) French medical bacteriologist, key experimenter in the development of Pasteur's rabies treatment, discoverer of the diphtheria exotoxin, and director of the Institut Pasteur 1904–1933.

Keywords: Institut Pasteur

 Further Reading
    Roux É and Yersin A (1888) Contribution a l’étude de la diphthérie. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 2: 629–661.
    Roux É and Yersin A (1889) Contribution a l’étude de la diphthérie (2e mémoire). Annales de l’Institut Pasteur 3: 273–288.
    Roux É and Yersin A (1890) Contribution a l’étude de la diphthérie (3e mémoire). Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 4: 385–426.
    book Delaunay A (1970–1980) "Roux, Pierre Paul Emile". In: Gillispie CC (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Geison G (1995) The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    Obituary (1933) Emile Roux, 1853–1933. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 5: 545–556.

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Board, Suzanne(Apr 2001) Roux, Pierre Paul Émile. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002546]