Oskar Minkowski
Oskar Minkowski · Science & Medicine
Physician who first linked the pancreas to diabetes, paving the way to insulin.
1858, Aleksotas, near Kaunas, Lithuania (then Russian Empire) — 1931, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
Lithuania · Germany
Oskar Minkowski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician who first linked the pancreas to diabetes, paving the way to insulin.
Oskar Minkowski was a physician who, with Josef von Mering, showed that removing a dog's pancreas caused diabetes, establishing the pancreas as the source of the hormone later identified as insulin and opening the path to its discovery. He was a leading figure in German internal medicine. He was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in the Kaunas area.
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Physician who first linked the pancreas to diabetes, paving the way to insulin.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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