Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)

Jérôme Lejeune

French pediatrician and geneticist (1926–1994)

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist. He is best known for his work on the links between chromosome abnormalities and diseases like Down Syndrome (trisomy-21) and cri du chat syndrome. He is also known for his subsequent strong opposition to…