François Zajdela, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

François Zajdela

Slovenian scientist

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 15-Nov-2008

Profession: biologist, oncologist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

François Zajdela (28 December 1920 – 15 November 2008) was a cancer researcher at the Curie Institute who specialised in the study of carcinogenesis.
In the 1940s, he came to France with his brother Antoine, who later also worked at the Curie Institute, as a cytopathologist.
His students included Pierre Tambourin. He married Renée Le Roy in 1951.
They had six children.
He was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite. He was also a man who loved languages, as he spoke six fluently: Slovene, French, English, Croatian, Russian, and German.