Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) (sometimes spelled Alfons or Alfonse), Frenchphysician who discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
... discovering or mapping many lands and islands
Hernan Fernando Cortes, conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico; sent out expeditions to Baja California
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