Nature: The Danish Cancer Researcher, Johannes Fibiger, Professor in the University of Copenhagen
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Johannes Fibiger
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma". He claimed to have shown that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma could cause stomach cancer in rats and mice. His experimental results were…
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Born 23 April 1867 · Died 30 January 1928 · Q216324
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2026· 1 entry
2010· 1 entry
Declared Fibiger's Nobel Prize as "one of the biggest blunders made by the Karolinska Institute
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1952· 1 entry
Repeated Fibiger's experiments using advanced microscopy and histology, and conclusively demonstrated that the tumours due to G
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1928· 1 entry
Died 1928-01-30.
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1927· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1927).
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1926· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma.
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Awarded commander of the Order of the Dannebrog (1926).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1926).
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Received two nominations along with Katsusaburo Yamagiwa
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Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Katsusaburo Yamagiwa, who had experimentally induced carcinoma by painting crude coal tar on the inner surface of rabbits' ears in 1915
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1925· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector (1925–1926).
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1918· 2 entries
Argued that the cancerous tumours produced in Fibiger's experiments were similar to non-cancerous tumours
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And gave the final valid name Gongylonema neoplasticum
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1913· 2 entries
That the nematode could induce stomach cancer
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Reported that he could experimentally induce cancer in healthy rats using the roundworms
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1897· 1 entry
Was appointed prosector at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy of University of Copenhagen
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1883· 1 entry
At age 16, he passed his matriculation and was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen to study zoology and botany
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-04-23.
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