Walter Kempner (physician, 1903)

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Walter Kempner (born January 25, 1903 in Berlin , Germany , † September 27, 1997 in Durham (North Carolina) , North Carolina , USA ) was a German physician.

Life

Kempner was born as the youngest son of the physician Walter Kemper and the microbiologist Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner . His brother was the lawyer Robert Kempner . His sister Nadja Kempner died of tuberculosis in 1932 . In 1934 Kempner emigrated to the USA. Walter Kempner is considered to be the inventor of the rice diet , which he developed at Duke University in 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Death Directory : Walter Kempner - US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI) - MyHeritage. In: myheritage.com. Retrieved July 4, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Harry Balkow-Gölitzer: Celebrities in Berlin-Lichterfelde: and their stories . Berlin Edition, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8148-0164-3 , pp. 55 (= https://books.google.at/books?id=8sQjAQAAIAAJ ).
  3. ^ NY Daily News: Rice Diet center closes after 70 years. In: nydailynews.com. September 10, 2013, accessed July 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ John McDougall, MD: Dr. McDougall's Health & Medical Center "Walter Kempner, MD - Founder of the Rice Diet. In: drmcdougall.com. December 31, 2013, accessed July 4, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kempner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1997
Place of death Durham, North Carolina , North Carolina , USA