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Charles Weissmann
Swiss biologist
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dead
- born
- 1931
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 94
- known for
- molecular biologist, university teacher, biochemist
1931 – 2025

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who charles weissmann is
Charles Weissmann was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, and "mad cow disease".
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