Oskar Minkowski

<html> <head> <title>Oskar Minkowski</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/867/000171354/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Oskar MinkowskiBorn: <a href="/lists/530/000106212/" class=proflink>13-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/857/000105542/" class=proflink>1858</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/677/000080437/" class=proflink>Kaunas, Lithuania</a> Died: <a href="/lists/086/000106765/" class=proflink>18-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/441/000106123/" class=proflink>1931</a> Location of death: Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Friedhof Heerstra遝, Berlin, Germany Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/632/000096344/" class=proflink>Doctor</a>, <a href="/lists/179/000068972/" class=proflink>Scientist</a>Nationality: Germany Executive summary: Linked pancreas to diabetesPathologist Oskar Minkowski determined that diabetes is caused by suppression of pancreatic substances, which were subsequently found and identified as the hormone insulin. For this, the first major breakthrough against the disease, he is the namesake of the Oskar Minkowski Award, presented annually by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Nazis came to power in Germany shortly after Minkowski's death, but his daughter was able to secret his wife out of Germany, to live with her in Argentina. His brother was mathematician <a href="/people/862/000171349/">Hermann Minkowski</a>, and his son was astrophysicist <a href="/people/872/000171359/">Rudolph Minkowski</a>.Father: Lewin Minkowski (businessman) Mother: Rachel Taubmann Minkowski Brother: <a href="/people/862/000171349/">Hermann Minkowski</a> (mathematician) Brother: Max Minkowski (grain wholesaler) Wife: Marie Johanna Siegel Minkowski (m. 1894) Daughter: Laure Minkowski Son: <a href="/people/872/000171359/">Rudolph Minkowski</a> (astrophysicist)     Medical School: <a href="/edu/635/000079398/">MD, University of Königsberg (1881)</a>     Teacher: <a href="/edu/633/000079396/">Medicine, University of Strasbourg (1882-1904)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/095/000098798/">Anatomy, University of Cologne (1904-05)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/475/000104163/">Anatomy, University of Greifswald (1905-09)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/635/000071422/">Anatomy, University of Wroclaw (1909-26)</a>     <a href="/lists/644/000044512/">German Ancestry</a>     <a href="/lists/481/000045346/">Jewish Ancestry</a> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=171354"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=171354">Oskar Minkowski</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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