Fibiger
Americannoun
noun
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One of the most clearcut cases is Johannes Fibiger, who won the 1926 prize in medicine “for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2019
And it certainly didn’t hurt that Fibiger had friends on the Nobel committee.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 6, 2015
“It is a very nice, very carefully executed study,” says bioarchaeologist Linda Fibiger from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 17, 2015
And Sometimes the Early Bird’s an Idiot Dec. 10, 1927: Johannes Fibiger wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine, based on his theory that cancer is caused by worms.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2015
The origin of the woman’s rights movement in Denmark is also literary,—to Frederika Bremer in Sweden, Aasta Hansteen and Clara Collett in Norway, must be added as emancipators, Mathilda Fibiger and Pauline Worm in Denmark.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Kaethe Schirmacher
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