Selmar Aschheim
Selmar Aschheim · Science & Medicine
Gynecologist who co-developed the Aschheim-Zondek test, the first reliable pregnancy test.
1878, Berlin, Germany — 1965, Paris, France
Germany · France
Selmar Aschheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Gynecologist who co-developed the Aschheim-Zondek test, the first reliable pregnancy test.
Aschheim was a German gynecologist who, with Bernhard Zondek, developed the Aschheim-Zondek test in 1928, the first reliable biological pregnancy test, based on detecting a hormone in urine. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, he fled Nazi Germany for France; he was Jewish.
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Gynecologist who co-developed the Aschheim-Zondek test, the first reliable pregnancy test.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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