On November 6, 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, French military surgeon Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovered that the cause of malaria is a parasite. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases Laveran was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
On May 8, 1828, Swiss businessman and social activist Henry Dunant was born. He is best known for the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863. Also the 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy.
L. Seabra Lopes, and A. Teixeira. 8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Encontro
Cient�fico do Rob�tica 2008, (2008)Vencedor do "Best Artificial Intelligence Paper" sponsored by the
Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA) , recognizing
the most outstanding paper describing applications of Artificial
Intelligence in Robotics..