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Marthe Gautier en 2014 © Rodolphe Escher
Marthe Gautier in 2014, the year she was awarded the rank of Officer in France’s Legion of Honour.
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A supernumerary discoverer
07.09.2026, by
Léa Galanopoulo
Marthe Gautier was the scientist behind the discovery of the supernumerary chromosome of trisomy 21, a genetic anomaly that affects some 50,000 people in France. Yet her work was overshadowed and she was not the one who took the credit. The biologist Julie Batut joins us for a look back at the career of this marginalised pioneer.
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