Nicolle


[nee-kawl] /niˈkɔl/

noun
1.
Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, French physician: Nobel prize 1928.

Nicolle Ni·colle (nē-kôl’), Charles Jean Henri. 1866-1936.

French bacteriologist. He won a 1928 Nobel Prize for discovering the carrier of typhus.

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