biography
| name: |
Bordet, Jules (Jean Baptiste Vincent)
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pronunciation:
[baw(r)day]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1961)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Soignies, S Belgium. He became director of the Pasteur Institute, Brabant (1901), professor at Brussels (1907), and recognized the immunity factors in blood serum. He discovered alexine and (1906) the microbe of whooping cough (Bordetella). He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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