Milan Hašek
Milan Hašek (born October 4, 1925 in Prague ; † November 14, 1984 ibid) was a Czechoslovak immunologist .
Hašek was head of the Department of Experimental Biology and Genetics in the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1953 and until 1970 director of the Institute for Experimental Biology and Genetics (IEGB) of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, which was founded in 1962. After the end of the Prague Spring , he lost his position as director.
In 1953 he was one of the discoverers of immunological tolerance in experiments with chicken embryos , in which he established a common circulatory system. He then showed that the antibody response of one embryo against the red blood cells of the other was absent. The Nobel Prize went only to Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar , whose work on this topic with Billingham and Brent also appeared in Nature in 1953 . This was due to the fact that Hašek only published his essay in Czech. Similar experiments to Hašek, only on calves, had already been carried out in 1945 by Ray Owen , whose work influenced that of Medawar and colleagues, but which Hašek probably did not know.
In 1966 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1968 he received the Emil von Behring Prize .
literature
- Jan Klein : In memoriam Milan Hasek 1925–1984 . In: Immunogenetics , vol. 21. 1985, pp. 105-108, PMID 3884495 .
- Juraj Ivanyi: Milan Hasek and the discovery of immunological tolerance . In: Nature Reviews Immunology , Vol. 3. 2003, pp. 591-597, PMID 12876561 , doi : 10.1038 / nri1133 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tribune.cz/clanek/7714
- ↑ History of the Institute for Molecular Genetics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Juraj Ivanyi: Milan Hasek and the discovery of immunological tolerance , Nature Reviews Immunology, Volume 3, July 2003, p. 591, PMID 12876561 , doi : 10.1038 / nri1133 .
- ↑ Milan Hašek: Vegetative hybridization of animals through common blood circulation in embryonic development (Czech), Czecheslov. Biol., Vol. 2, 1953, pp. 265-277.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hašek, Milan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1984 |
| Place of death | Prague |