François Zajdela
François Zajdela (by his full name François Zajdela Von Weiten Stein) (28 December 1920 – 15 November 2008)[1] was a cancer researcher at the Curie Institute who specialised in the study of carcinogenesis.[2] In the 1940s, he came to France with his brother Antoine, who later also worked at the Curie Institute, as a cytopathologist.[3] His students included Pierre Tambourin .
He married Renée Le Roy in 1951. They had six children.[1] He was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite.[1] He was also a man who loved languages, as he spoke six fluently: Slovene, French, English, Croatian, Russian, and German.