Jules Bordet (1870-1961)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries relating to immunity.”

Belgian microbiologist. Bordet was born in Soignies, Belgium on June 13, 1870. He was educated in the University of Brussels where he graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1892. In 1894 he went to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute until 1901 when he returned to Belgium to found the Pasteur Institute. He was Director of the Belgian Institute and Professor of Bacteriology, University of Brussels. Bordet died on April 6, 1961, in Brussels.