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Charles Weissmann

Swiss biologist

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born
1931
died
2025
age at death
94
known for
molecular biologist, university teacher, biochemist

1931 – 2025

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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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