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Fibiger

[ fee-buh-ger; Danish fee-bee-guhr ]

noun

  1. Jo·han·nes An·dre·as Grib [yoh-, hah, -nis ahn-, dre, -ahs g, r, eeb], 1867–1928, Danish pathologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.


Fibiger

/ ˈfibiɡər /

noun

  1. FibigerJohannes Andreas Grib18671928MDanishMEDICINE: physician Johannes Andreas Grib (joˈhanəs anˈdreːas ɡrɪb). 1867–1928, Danish physician: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1926) for his work in cancer research
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Example Sentences

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

“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.

One of the most clearcut cases is Johannes Fibiger, who won the 1926 prize in medicine “for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma”.

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.

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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