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Leopold Freund

Who

Leopold Freund · Science & Medicine

What

Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.

When

1868, Miskovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary — 1943, Brussels, Belgium

Where

Austria · Belgium

Biography

Leopold Freund is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.

How & why

Freund is regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy and dermatological radiology; in 1896 he became the first physician to treat a patient therapeutically with X-rays, publishing the first textbook of radiotherapy. He was born into a Jewish family in Bohemia and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, fled to Belgium where he died during the war.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

Contributions & Sources

Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.

1868

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology