François Zajdela

François Zajdela (by his full name François Zajdela Von Weiten Stein) (28 December 1920 – 15 November 2008) was a cancer researcher at the Curie Institute who specialised in the study of carcinogenesis. In the 1940s, he came to France with his brother Antoine, who later also worked at the Curie Institute, as a cytopathologist. His students included Pierre Tambourin.

He married Renée Le Roy in 1951. They had six children. He was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite. He was also a man who loved languages, as he spoke six fluently: Slovene, French, English, Croatian, Russian, and German.