Louis Otten Explained

Louis "Lou" Otten (November 5, 1883 in Rijswijk – November 7, 1946 in The Hague) was a Dutch football (soccer) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.^[1]

He was also a doctor and scientist credited as the inventor of the bubonic vaccine during his tenure at Pasteur Institute in Bandung, Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia).^{[2] [3]}

Otten was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1934.^[4]

External links

• Louis Otten at databaseOlympics.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Louis Otten . Olympedia . 27 March 2021.
2. Web site: Olympedia – Lou Otten . 2023-10-23 . www.olympedia.org.
3. 2018-11-16 . "Field rat - plague research in the district Malang." . en.
4. Web site: Louis Otten (1883 - 1946) . https://web.archive.org/web/20190419204853/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002181 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 19 April 2019.