Fibiger
Americannoun
noun
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Fibiger discovered a tiny parasitic worm which he concluded caused stomach cancer in rodents, but the animals were later shown to have skin problems caused by vitamin A deficiency.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2019
Fibiger studied wild rats with warty growths, which Fibiger believed was a form of cancer caused by parasitic worms.
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 Schirmacher, Kaethe
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