Georg Klein (biologist)

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Georg Klein
Georg and Eva Klein, Stockholm 1979

Georg Klein (also George Klein ; born July 28, 1925 in Budapest ; died December 10, 2016 ) was a Hungarian - Swedish oncologist and cell biologist. He worked at the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm as a professor of tumor biology.

life and work

György Klein survived the persecution of the Jews by the Germans and their Hungarian helpers in Budapest in 1944/45. He later wrote about it several times. He came to Sweden as a refugee after the Second World War, after having been a lecturer in histology and pathology at the University of Budapest . He received his doctorate in medicine ( MD ) at the Karolinska Institute in 1951 and was then assistant professor for cell research. From 1957 to 1993 he was Professor of Tumor Biology and Head of the Tumor Biology Department at the Karolinska Institute. Among other things, he was visiting professor at Stanford University (1961) and from 1973 to 1993 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 1972 he was a Fogarty Scholar at the National Institutes of Health .

Among other things, Klein dealt intensively with the Epstein-Barr virus and its role in the development of cancer ( Burkitt's lymphoma ), with the role of other cancer viruses and with the genetics of cancer. He was the author and co-author of more than 1,280 scientific papers.

Klein was the editor of Advances in Cancer Research .

He was married to the biologist Eva Klein .

Honors

Klein was an honorary doctor of the University of Chicago (1966), Debrecen , Tel Aviv University , Hebrew University , Osaka University and the University of Nebraska . He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1967), the Academia Europaea , the American Philosophical Society and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was an honorary member of the American Association of Cancer Research (whose Clowes Memorial Lecture he gave in 1967), the European Association for Cancer Research, and the American Association of Immunologists . From 1957 to 1993 he was also on the Nobel Committee .

In 1979 he received the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize , in 1975 the William B. Coley Award , in 1974 the Emil von Behring Prize , the Léopold Griffuel Prize (1974), in 1978 the Björken Prize, the Erik Fernström Prize Prize (1983 with Eva Klein), the Gairdner Foundation International Award (1976), the Robert Koch Medal (1998), the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research together with Harald zur Hausen (1999), the Paracelsus Medal (2001) and numerous other prizes. In 1975 he received the Harvey Prize and in 1973 he was a Harvey Lecturer .

Fonts (selection)

  • The production of ascites tumors in mice and their use in studies on some biological and chemical characteristics of neoplastic cells. 1951, OCLC 753380054 (Dissertation University Stockholm 1951, 33 pages).
  • Editor: Viral Oncology , Raven Press 1980
  • Editor: Advances in Viral Oncology , Raven Press, from 1982
  • Published in: DNA Virus oncogenes and their action , Raven Press 1983
  • with Carlo Croce Chromosome translocations and human cancer , Scientific American , March 1985
  • Editor: Viruses as the causative agents of naturally occurring tumors , Raven Press 1985
  • Editor: Analysis of multistep scenarios in the natural history of human or animal cancer , Raven Press 1987
  • Georg Klein: The approaching era of the tumor suppressor genes . In: Science . 238, 1987, pp. 1539-1545. PMID 3317834 .
  • The atheist and the holy city. Encounters and reflections , MIT Press 1990, 1992 (essays, Swedish 1987)
  • Editor: Cellular oncogene activation , Marcel Dekker 1988
  • Pieta , MIT Press 1992 (Swedish 1989)
  • Editor: Tumorigenic DNA Viruses , Raven Press 1989
  • Editor: Tumor Suppression Genes , Marcel Dekker 1990
  • Live Now , Prometheus Books 1997
  • with Eva Klein: Foreword for: Imre Kertész : Mannen utan öde . Fiasco; Kaddish för ett ofött barn . Translation Maria Ortman. Norstedt, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-7263-915-6 (Swedish)
  • Confronting the Holocaust: An Eyewitness Account , in: Randolph L. Braham ; William vanden Heuvel (Ed.): The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary . New York: Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2011 ISBN 978-0-88033-688-8 , pp. 255–283

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Klein har avlidit. Karolinska Institutet, December 11, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ According to his English CV at the Karolinska Institute, he was an instructor in 1945/1946 .
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Swedish oncologist and cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016