Bordet

American

[bawr-dey, bawr-de] / bɔrˈdeɪ, bɔrˈdɛ /

noun

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent 1870–1961, Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1919.

Bordet British

/ bɔrdɛ /

noun

Jules ( Jean Baptiste Vincent ) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919

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Psychosociologist Joelle Bordet, 72, said she thought the word "reconciliation" was "too strong".

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

Next to Bordet was Nour-Eddine Skiker, head of the "Jalons pour la paix" association, some of whose volunteers came with a local youth council group to lend a hand.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

Metchnikoff and Bordet subsequently devised means by which a similar change could be produced in vitro, and analysed the conditions necessary for its occurrence.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

It is interesting that the mode of action of the serum in destroying bacteria was demonstrated not by a German but by Bordet, a French observer and a pupil of Metschnikoff.

From Disease and Its Causes by Councilman, William Thomas

Bordet, M. Sur un café rendu inoffensif par la décaféination.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

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