biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1940)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist and immunologist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Columbia University, and taught there, at Stanford, and at Harvard (from 1923). He worked on many scientific problems, including allergy, the measurement of virus size, and the cause of rheumatic fever. He is best known for clarifying the rickettsial disease typhus, differentiating epidemic and endemic forms (the endemic form is still called Brill–Zinsser's disease). His Textbook of Bacteriology (1910) and Infection and Resistance (1914) became classics. |
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