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Jules Bordet
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Jules Bordet

Politician · born June 13, 1870 · died 1961

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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity.

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  1. ~49Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1919

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