Leopold Freund
Leopold Freund · Science & Medicine
Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.
1868, Miskovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary — 1943, Brussels, Belgium
Austria · Belgium
Leopold Freund is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.
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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Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
