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August von Wassermann

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August Paul von Wassermann (21 February 1866 – 16 March 1925) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist. [1]

27 relations: Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Arent Greve de Besche, Aronson Prize, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Carl Neuberg, Charité, Felix Plaut, Georg Jochmann, Josef Jadassohn, Jules Bordet, June 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Kitasato Shibasaburō, La Follette-Bulwinkle Act, László Detre (microbiologist), Manifesto of the Ninety-Three, March 16, Octave Gengou, Pasteur Institute, Richard Paltauf, Rudolf Kraus, Stanislaus von Prowazek, Theodor Axenfeld, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test, Wassermann, Wassermann test, Wilhelm Kolle.

Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser

Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (22 January 1855, Schweidnitz – 30 July 1916, Breslau) was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae).

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Arent Greve de Besche

Arent Greve de Besche (4 December 1878 – 17 September 1945) was a Norwegian bacteriologist.

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Aronson Prize

The Aronson Prize (Aronson-Preis) is a prize awarded for achievements in microbiology and immunology.

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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Carl Neuberg

Carl Alexander Neuberg (29 July 1877 – 30 May 1956) was an early pioneer in biochemistry, and he is often referred to as the "father of modern biochemistry".

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Charité

The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is Europe's largest University clinic, affiliated with both Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin.

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Felix Plaut

Felix Plaut (1877–1940) was a German psychiatrist who was director of the Department of Serology at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich.

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Georg Jochmann

Georg Jochmann (11 October 1874, in Liegnitz – 6 January 1915, in Berlin) was a German internist and bacteriologist, who specialized in infectious diseases.

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Josef Jadassohn

Joseph (Josef) Jadassohn (10 September 1863, Liegnitz – 24 March 1936, Zurich) was a German dermatologist.

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Jules Bordet

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist.

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June 1912

The following events occurred in June 1912.

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Kaiser Wilhelm Society

The Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften) was a German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.

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Kitasato Shibasaburō

Baron was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist during the reign of the Empire of Japan, prior to World War 2.

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La Follette-Bulwinkle Act

La Follette-Bulwinkle Act or Venereal Diseases Control and Prevention Act of 1938 sanctioned federal assistance to U.S. states establishing preventive healthcare for venereal diseases.

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László Detre (microbiologist)

László Detre (October 29, 1874, Nagysurány – May 7, 1939, Washington, DC (a.k.a. Ladislas Deutsch, Ladislaus Deutsch"Origins of the Terms 'Antibody' and 'Antigen'", Scand. J. Immunol., 19, 281-285, 1984) was a Hungarian physician and microbiologist, the founder and first director of the Hungarian Serum Institute in Budapest. Detre coined the term "antigen" in a 1903 French-language paper co-authored with Russian biologist Élie Metchnikoff (referring to "substances immunogènes ou antigènes"), although the word and concept appears in his research as early as 1899. He is also a codiscoverer of the Wassermann reaction, publishing his discovery in humans just two weeks after Wassermann documented his findings in apes.

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Manifesto of the Ninety-Three

The "Manifesto of the Ninety-Three" is the name commonly given to a 4 October 1914, proclamation endorsed by 93 prominent German scientists, scholars and artists, declaring their unequivocal support of German military actions in the early period of World War I. These actions were elsewhere called the Rape of Belgium.

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March 16

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Octave Gengou

Octave Gengou (27 February 1875, Ouffet – 25 April 1957, Brussels) was a Belgian bacteriologist.

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Pasteur Institute

The Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines.

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Richard Paltauf

Richard Paltauf (9 February 1858 – 21 April 1924) was an Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist born in Judenburg, Styria.

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Rudolf Kraus

Rudolf Kraus (31 October 1868, Jungbunzlau – 15 July 1932) was an Austrian pathologist, bacteriologist and immunologist known for his work with bacterial precipitins.

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Stanislaus von Prowazek

Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek, Edler von Lanow (12 November, 1875 Jindřichův Hradec, Bohemia – 17 February, 1915, Cottbus), born Stanislav Provázek, was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879-1956) discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

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Theodor Axenfeld

Karl Theodor Paul Polykarpus Axenfeld (24 June 1867 – 29 July 1930) was a German ophthalmologist born in Smyrna (İzmir) in the Ottoman Empire to a German minister, who was a Jewish convert to Christianity and served as missionary in Asia Minor.

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Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test

The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test (VDRL) is a blood test for syphilis that was developed by the eponymous lab.

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Wassermann

Wasserman or Wassermann is a surname.

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Wassermann test

The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement-fixation.

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Wilhelm Kolle

Wilhelm Kolle (born 2 November 1868 in Lerbach near Osterode am Harz, died 10 May 1935) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Wassermann

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