Arthur Felix
Arthur Felix (born April 3, 1887 in Andrychów , † January 17, 1956 in England ) was a bacteriologist .
Arthur Felix worked and researched in Bielsko , Vienna , Prague and London , among others . Together with Edmund Weil , he developed the Weil-Felix reaction in 1915 to detect typhus and other rickettsioses in the urine . From 1921 to 1925 Felix worked in Jerusalem for the Hadassah Medical Organization . In 1925 he returned to London and worked for the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine .
The A. Felix Public Health Laboratories in Tel Aviv is named after him.
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SURNAME | Felix, Arthur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bacteriologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Andrychów |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1956 |
Place of death | England |