Victor Morax

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Victor Morax (March 16, 1866 - May 14, 1935) was a French ophthalmologist who was born in Morges, Switzerland. He studied biochemistry in Freiburg and medicine in Paris. From 1891 until 1903 he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and from 1903-1928 he was associated with the Hôpital Lariboisière. In 1930 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.

While at the Pasteur Institute, Morax discovered the bacillus Moraxella lacunata, which is the cause of chronic conjunctivitis. The disease is sometimes referred to as Axenfeld's conjuctivitis, named after German ophthalmologist Theodor Axenfeld (1867-1930), who made his discovery of the bacillus during the same time period as did Morax.

In 1923 he became vice-president of the International League Against Trachoma with bacteriologist Charles Nicolle (1866-1936) as its president. In 1929 he published an important treastise on the disorder titled Le Trachome. Beginning in 1892 he was editor of the journal Annales d’oculistique.