
Theodor Otto Diener
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 2 years ago |
Date of birth | February 28,1921 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Citations | 8,212 |
H index | 49 |
Books | Viroids and Viroid Diseases |
Awards | National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences |
Wolf Prize in Agriculture | |
National Medal of Science | |
Born | Zurich |
Switzerland | |
Known for | Discovery of viroids |
Died | Beltsville |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Date of died | March 28,2023 |
Children | 3 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 885461 |
Theodor Otto Diener Life story
Theodor Otto Diener was a Swiss-American plant pathologist. In 1971, he discovered that the causative agent of the potato spindle tuber disease is not a virus, but a novel agent, which consists solely of a short strand of single-stranded RNA without a protein capsid, eighty times smaller than the smallest viruses.