Eva Klein
Eva Klein (Eva Fischer Klein; born January 22, 1925) is a Hungarian-Swedish scientist best known for leading the discovery of natural killer cells and developing Burkitt Lymphoma cell lines in the 1960s. Born in Hungary in 1925, Klein has worked at the Karolinska Institute since leaving Hungary in 1947. Her life and career choices as a young Jewish woman were constrained by discrimination, and she survived the late stages of German occupation in hiding. A medical doctor with a PhD in biology, she has worked in cancer immunology and virology. She has pursued her own lines of work as well as working closely with her husband, George Klein. They are both regarded as founders of cancer immunology. They have three children.
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Eva Klein
Eva Klein (Eva Fischer Klein; born January 22, 1925) is a Hungarian-Swedish scientist best known for leading the discovery of natural killer cells and developing Burkitt Lymphoma cell lines in the 1960s. Born in Hungary in 1925, Klein has worked at the Karolinska Institute since leaving Hungary in 1947. Her life and career choices as a young Jewish woman were constrained by discrimination, and she survived the late stages of German occupation in hiding. A medical doctor with a PhD in biology, she has worked in cancer immunology and virology. She has pursued her own lines of work as well as working closely with her husband, George Klein. They are both regarded as founders of cancer immunology. They have three children.
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Eva Klein with her husband, George Klein, Stockholm, April 1979
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