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Discovery of Cancer Virus

Belgium · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1933

Albert Claude1933

Science / Medicine

1st to isolate & chemically analyze a cancer virus, a ribonucleic acid virus

Names involved

Albert Claude

Provenance

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