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  • Title: Alexander Lipschütz (1883-1980). A biographical synopsis.
    Author: Günther B.
    Journal: Biol Res; 1994; 27(2):79-84. PubMed ID: 8640244.
    Abstract:
    Alexander Lipschütz was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1883. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1901. He conducted research at the Universities of Zürich, Bonn, Göttingen, Bern and Vienna. He was full Professor of Physiology at the Universities of Dorpart (1919-1926), in Tartu, Estonia, and Concepción (1927-1936), in Chile. Later, he became the first Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, of the Chilean National Health Service. He authored 22 books and a large number of scientific papers, mostly on Endocrinology and Oncology. He directed 16 medical theses at the University of Concepción and 81 at the University of Chile. He was awarded with the first Chilean National Prize in Science (1969). He died in Santiago, Chile, in 1980.
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