Charles Weissmann
(14 Oct 1931 - )

Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist who was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, and co-founded the Swiss biotechnology company Biogen (1978).

Science Quotes by Charles Weissmann (1)

Biology has become as unthinkable without gene-splicing techniques as sending an explorer into the jungle without a compass.
Magazine interview (1981); one year after becoming the first scientist to make bacteria produce a facsimile of human interferon.
— Charles Weissmann
'Shaping Life in the Lab'. In Time (9 Mar 1981).
See also:  |  Biology (42)  |  Compass (5)  |  Explorer (3)  |  Gene (29)  |  Jungle (2)


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