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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity.

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science · Belgian scientist and Nobel laureate (1870–1961) · biologist · immunologist · politician · university teacher · dermatologist · physician · bacteriologist · also Jules Bordet, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Bordet

Born 13 June 1870 · Died 6 April 1961 · Q211787

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Jun 1951Award
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1951).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier (1932).
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2025· 1 entry

Nov 13, 2025Documented record77% confidence

Nature: Institute Jules Bordet, ULB

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1961· 2 entries

Apr 6, 1961Documented record86% confidence

Died 1961-04-06.

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1961Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And was interred in the Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels

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1951· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1951Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1951).

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1941· 1 entry

1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With the publication by Ruska of the first electron microscope pictures of bacteriophages

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1932· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1932Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier (1932).

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Jun 15, 1932Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of Caen University (1932).

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1930· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1930Documented record84% confidence

Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy (1930).

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Jun 15, 1930Documented record84% confidence

Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1930).

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1925· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1925Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1925).

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1923· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1923Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1923).

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1922· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1922Documented record84% confidence

Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1922).

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1919· 3 entries

Dec 10, 1919Documented record85% confidence

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries relating to immunity.

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Jun 15, 1919Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1919).

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For his discoveries relating to immunity

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1916· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1916Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1916).

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1906· 1 entry

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And posited it as the cause of whooping cough

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1900· 1 entry

1900Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Left Paris to found an institute in Brussels like Pasteur's, and continued to work extensively on the mechanisms involved in the action of complement

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1899· 1 entry

1899Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Described a similar destructive process involving complement, "hemolysis", in which foreign red blood cells are ruptured or "lysed" following exposure to immune serum

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1895· 1 entry

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Bordet made his discovery that the bacteriolytic effect of acquired specific antibody is significantly enhanced in vivo by the presence of innate serum components which he termed alexine (but which are now known as compl

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1892· 1 entry

1892Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, who had just discovered phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells, an expression of cellular immunity

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1870· 1 entry

Jun 13, 1870Documented record86% confidence

Born 1870-06-13.

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