Albert Neisser
Albert Neisser · Science & Medicine
Physician who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
1855, Schweidnitz, Prussia (present-day Świdnica, Poland) — 1916, Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland)
Germany
Albert Neisser is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
Neisser was a physician who in 1879 discovered Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, and made major contributions to the study of leprosy and syphilis. He was Jewish, born to a German-Jewish family, and led dermatology at the University of Breslau, where the genus Neisseria was named after him.
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Physician who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
