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Marthe Gautier (1925 – 2022)

Portrait of Marthe Gautier
Marthe Gautier, physician and biologist.

A French physician and biologist, she identified trisomy 21 in 1959. Her discovery was attributed to Jérôme Lejeune, a colleague.

She was officially recognized only in 2014.

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“I never stopped loving research, even when it forgot me.”

— Marthe Gautier