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Azar Andami, born in Rasht (Iran) in 1926, died in Tehran on 28 August 1984, was an Iranian physician and bacteriologist. She began her career as a teacher for the Ministry of Culture, but attended Tehran university and graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1959. At first she specialised in gynaecology. She moved to the Pasteur Institute in Tehran and then to Paris to study bacteriology. She published several scholarly papers and invented a vaccine against cholera.
A crater on the planet Venus was named in her honour; see List of craters on Venus.
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