Viktor Hamburger
Viktor Hamburger · Science & Medicine
Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
1900, Landeshut, Silesia, Germany — 2001, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Germany · United States
Viktor Hamburger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
Born in Germany to a Jewish family and dismissed from his post under the Nazi racial laws, Hamburger emigrated to Washington University in St. Louis, where his meticulous studies of nerve development in chick embryos set the stage for the discovery of nerve growth factor, made with his collaborator Rita Levi-Montalcini.
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Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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