Henri Chaoul

Henri Chaoul (born December 14, 1887 in Dair al-Qamar , † June 1, 1964 in Beirut ) was a Lebanese radiologist and radiation therapist .

Life

After finishing school in Beirut, Chaoul completed a medical degree at the French university there. After successfully completing his studies, Chaoul first worked in Paris and from 1912 as a radiologist in Cairo . Chaoul became an assistant to Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch and from 1915 built up the X-ray department at Zurich University Hospital under him and moved to Munich with Sauerbruch in 1919 . At the University of Munich , Chaoul , who holds a doctorate in medicine, was the senior physician in charge of the Radiological Institute at the Sauerbruch University Clinic under Sauerbruch. In addition, he worked from 1924 as a private lecturer and one year later as an associate professor at the University of Munich.

Chaoul followed Sauerbruch to Berlin in April 1928 and headed the radiology department at the Charité's surgical institute . Chaoul became associate professor there at the beginning of April 1930 and full professor for radiology and radiation medicine at the end of April 1939. From 1940 Chaoul headed the X-ray Institute of the Robert Koch Hospital in Berlin-Moabit . In 1944, after the death of Karl Frik , he also took over the University Institute for Radiology at the Charité.

From 1944 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . Towards the end of the Second World War he settled in Alexandria and headed the X-ray department of the King Fuad I Hospital there after the war .

Chaoul was an internationally recognized radiologist and radiation therapist who received multiple awards for his research on X-ray diagnostics, tomography and post-irradiation. In 1931, for example, he developed close and contact radiation. A Chaoul surface irradiation device was designed for this therapy, some of which is still in use today.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata. Academy of Sciences in Berlin. de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-11-013945-7 .

Web links

• Image by Chaoul

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rudolf Birkner: Henri Chaoul †. In: Advances in X-rays and Imaging. 1964, 101 (11), p. 557. doi: 10.1055 / s-0029-1227594
2. ↑ Civil status at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich - summer half year 1925 (PDF; 15.5 MB)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 91.
4. ^ ^{A b c} Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of sciences from Berlin: questions - results - desiderata . Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1994, p. 41.
5. ↑ Roentgen Museum ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 64 kB)