Julius Cohnheim
Julius Cohnheim · Science & Medicine
Pathologist who advanced the understanding of inflammation and its cellular basis.
1839, Demmin, Prussia (now Germany) — 1884, Leipzig, Germany
Germany
Julius Cohnheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Pathologist who advanced the understanding of inflammation and its cellular basis.
Julius Cohnheim was a pathologist who transformed the understanding of inflammation, showing experimentally that it arises from white blood cells passing through vessel walls to the site of injury, and who advanced the study of tumors and tissue injury. He is regarded as a founder of experimental pathology. He was born into a Jewish family in Demmin, Pomerania.
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Pathologist who advanced the understanding of inflammation and its cellular basis.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
