biography
pronunciation:
[dayrel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1949)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Montreal, Quebec, SE Canada. He studied there and worked in Central America, Europe, and Egypt before holding a chair at Yale (1926–33). In 1915 he discovered the bacteriophage, a type of virus which infects bacteria, and this finding later proved to be of great value to research in molecular biology. |
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