Bela Schick
Bela Schick · Science & Medicine
Pediatrician who devised the Schick test to detect susceptibility to diphtheria.
1877, Balatonboglar, Hungary — 1967, New York City, United States
Hungary · Austria · United States
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Bela Schick was a pediatrician who in 1913 devised the Schick test, a simple skin test to detect susceptibility to diphtheria, enabling targeted immunization against a then-deadly childhood disease. With Clemens von Pirquet he also helped introduce the concept of 'allergy.' He was born into a Jewish family in Boglar (Balatonboglar), Hungary, and later led pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
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Pediatrician who devised the Schick test to detect susceptibility to diphtheria.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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