Theodor Otto Diener
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 2 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 28,1921 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Citations | 8,212 |
| H index | 49 |
| Books | Viroids and Viroid Diseases |
| Awards | National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences |
| Wolf Prize in Agriculture | |
| National Medal of Science | |
| Born | Zurich |
| Switzerland | |
| Known for | Discovery of viroids |
| Died | Beltsville |
| Maryland | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 28,2023 |
| Children | 3 |
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| ID | 885461 |
Theodor Otto Diener Life story
Theodor Otto Diener was a Swiss-American plant pathologist. In 1971, he discovered that the causative agent of the potato spindle tuber disease is not a virus, but a novel agent, which consists solely of a short strand of single-stranded RNA without a protein capsid, eighty times smaller than the smallest viruses.