Fibiger

[fee-buh-ger, fee-bee-guhr]

noun

1. Johannes Andreas Grib 1867–1928, Danish pathologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.

Fibiger

/ ˈfibiɡər /

noun

1. Johannes Andreas Grib (joˈhanəs anˈdreːas ɡrɪb). 1867–1928, Danish physician: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1926) for his work in cancer research

Example Sentences

“There’s good reason for that,” Fibiger says.

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“It’s great to see such a big dataset from a region where we haven’t had these large-scale studies,” says Linda Fibiger, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Edinburgh, who was not directly involved in the study but helped review the paper.

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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”.

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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.

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In 1927, the prize was given to Johannes Fibiger for discovering a worm that caused cancer and to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for malariatherapy.

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