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Bordet

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

noun

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


Bordet British  
/ bɔrdɛ /

noun

  1. 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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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.

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From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

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