Jérôme Lejeune
Physician
1926 – 1994
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Who was Jérôme Lejeune?
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities and for his subsequent opposition to prenatal diagnosis and abortion.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1926
Montrouge - Also known as
- Jerome Lejeune
- Dr. Jérôme Lejeune
- Spouses
- Birthe Bringsted
(1952/05/01 - )
- Birthe Bringsted
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Collège Stanislas de Paris
- Died
- Apr 3, 1994
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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