René Rachou was a Brazilian

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and

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er on

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who was the director of the Institute of Malariology of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in

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. He also worked with the Pan-American Health Organization. The Institute was moved to

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in 1955, and, after his death, in 1965, it was renamed Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou in his honor.http://www.cpqrr.fiocruz.br/pg/en/about-us/history/ 1966 entry

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History of the René Rachou Research Center
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, in Portuguese. 1965 deaths People from Taubaté Brazilian tropical physicians Malariologists 20th-century Brazilian physicians 20th-century Brazilian scientists {{Brazil-med-bio-stub