Charles Weissmann

Swiss biologist · Switzerland · On the map · Academics · Lived 1931 to 2025 · aged 94

Charles Weissmann was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and "mad cow disease".

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2025Died11 December 20252014Ernst Jung Gold Medal for MedicineAward2003Warren Alpert Foundation PrizeAward1998Mendel MedalAward1997August Wilhelm von Hofmann MedalAwardWilhelm Exner MedalAward1995Robert Koch Gold MedalAward1994Honorary doctors of Ghent UniversityAward1993Gabor MedalAward1988Ernst Jung Prize for MedicineAward1983Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1982Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and BiophysicsAward1980Otto Warburg MedalAward1974Sir Hans Krebs MedalAward1970Marcel Benoist PrizeAward1931Born14 October 1931