Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Physician
1841 – 1912
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Who was Gerhard Armauer Hansen?
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
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