Jean Lindenmann was a Swiss virologist and immunologist.
10 Facts About Jean Lindenmann
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Jean Lindenmann was born on September 18,1924, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, to a Swiss father and a French mother from Paris.
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The family moved from Yugoslavia to Zurich, Switzerland when Jean Lindenmann was a few years old.
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Jean Lindenmann gained a fellowship from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences to do postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, UK, where he worked with Alick Isaacs.
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Jean Lindenmann returned to the Institute of Hygiene in 1957, and spent most of the remainder of his career at the University of Zurich, retiring in 1992.
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Jean Lindenmann held a position at the Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, as well as a visiting professorship at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, where he worked with George Gifford.
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Jean Lindenmann later returned to the University of Zurich to conduct further research on interferon and its potential uses.
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Jean Lindenmann discovered that interferons acted indirectly to protect resistant mice by switching on a gene which produces a particular protein to defend against influenza.
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Jean Lindenmann married Ellen Buechler in 1957; she died in 2007.
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Jean Lindenmann died from prostate cancer at a hospice in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 15,2015, at the age of 90.