Erwin Popper

Erwin Popper (born December 9, 1879 , † September 28, 1955 ) was an Austrian doctor who, together with Karl Landsteiner, discovered the infectious nature of polio in 1908 .

Popper received his doctorate in Vienna in 1903 and was then initially a military doctor in the artillery. From 1904 to 1905 he was an aspirant and secondary doctor at the Wiedner Spital in Vienna, then at the Wilhelminenspital . In 1911 he moved to the children's department of the General Polyclinic as an assistant doctor . From 1918 he was a pediatrician in Vienna and head of the children's outpatient department of the Vienna Health Insurance Fund. In 1938 he emigrated to England and was medical officer in children's homes until 1942, then from 1942 to 1945 Resident Medical Officer in Cheshire .

source

Paul Speiser: Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups and pioneer of immunology; Biography of a Nobel Prize winner from the Vienna Medical School . 3. unchang. Edition Berlin 1990, Blackwell Ueberreuter-Wiss, ISBN 3-89412-084-3 , page 150.

Individual evidence

↑ Original publication : Landsteiner, K. and Popper, E .: Transmission of poliomyelitis acuta to monkeys in the journal for immunity research and experimental therapy . Volume 2, 1909, pp. 377-390.

personal data
SURNAME	Popper, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1879
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1955

[1] Original publication : Landsteiner, K. and Popper, E .: Transmission of poliomyelitis acuta to monkeys in the journal for immunity research and experimental therapy . Volume 2, 1909, pp. 377-390.