| LC control no. | n 86072805 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Diener, T. O. (Theodor Otto), 1921-2023 |
| Variant(s) | Diener, Theodor Otto, 1921- Diener, T. O. (Theodor Otto), 1921- |
| Located | Beltsville (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1921-02-28 |
| Death date | 2023-03-28 |
| Place of birth | Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Place of death | Beltsville (Md.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Agricultural Research Service Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |
| Found in | The Viroids, c1987: CIP t.p. (T.O. Diener, Microbiology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture) LC data base, 5/12/87 (hdg.: Diener, Theodor Otto, 1921- ; usage: T.O. Diener) Washington post WWW site, viewed April 17, 2023 (in obituary dated April 13, 2023: Theodor O. Diener, a Swiss-born scientist whose investigation more than half a century ago of shriveled, stunted potatoes yielded the discovery of the tiniest known agent of infectious disease, a particle one-eightieth the size of a virus that he named the viroid, died March 28 at his home in Beltsville, Md. He was 102. Theodor Otto Diener was born in Zurich, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, on Feb. 28, 1921. Dr. Diener studied biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, receiving a doctoral degree in 1948.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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