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Lou Otten
Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1908 London Team Competition

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]

References

  1. ^ "Louis Otten". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Olympedia – Lou Otten". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  3. ^ ""Field rat - plague research in the district Malang."". 2018-11-16. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Louis Otten (1883 - 1946)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019.