Nature: Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID)
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Paul Langerhans
Paul Langerhans was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans.
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science · German pathologist (1847–1888) · pathologist · physiologist · physician · also Paul Langerhans, Langerhans
Born 25 July 1847 · Died 20 July 1888 · Q57710
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2024· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Anette-Gabriele Ziegler receives the Paul Langerhans Medal
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2023· 1 entry
Nature: Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID), Germany
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2008· 1 entry
Healio: Paul Langerhans Jr. — the man behind two medical eponyms
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1888· 1 entry
Died 1888-07-20.
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1887· 1 entry
Gave a lecture on these topics to the Royal Academy in Berlin
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1885· 1 entry
Married Margarethe Ebart, the widow of one of his patients
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1874· 1 entry
That he contracted tuberculosis, very likely because of his work in the dissecting room
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1871· 1 entry
Rudolf Virchow arranged a position for him as prosector in pathological anatomy at the University of Freiburg, and within two years he became a full professor
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1868· 1 entry
Langerhans used the technique taught to him by Julius Friedrich Cohnheim to stain a sample of human skin with gold chloride and identified the cells which bear his name
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-07-25.
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