Jean Courtial
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Jean Courtial was a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 physician
Physician
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, former polytechnician
Polytech Group (France)
The Polytech' Group is a French network of 12 graduate schools of engineering within France's leading science universities. All schools in the Group offer Master of Engineering degrees in various specialities...

 who worked at Curie Institute
Curie Institute (Paris)
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 from 1950 to 1966. Courtial etablished the fact that any animal
Animal
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 without growth hormone
Growth hormone
Growth hormone is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. Growth hormone is a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide that is synthesized, stored, and secreted by the somatotroph cells within the lateral wings of the anterior...

 can't have cancer
Cancer
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. André Gernez
André Gernez
André Gernez is a French non-conventional physician. He created a global non-governmental organisation Organic Union International in 1989 with doctors Jacques Lacaze and Jean-Pierre Willem....

 celebrated the memory of Jean Courtial to Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
Société d'Encouragement au Progrès is a NGO fighting for initiative, responsibility and progress headquartered in Paris . It publishes a quarterly review called La Tribune du Progrès....

 in 2009.

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