Johannes Fibiger

<html> <head> <title>Johannes Fibiger</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/172/000126791/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>Johannes Fibiger<img src="johannes-fibiger.jpg" height=344 width=234 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Johannes Fibiger">AKA Johannes Andreas Grib FibigerBorn: <a href="/lists/631/000106313/" class=proflink>23-Apr</a>-<a href="/lists/866/000105551/" class=proflink>1867</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/247/000203635/" class=proflink>Silkeborg, Denmark</a> Died: <a href="/lists/913/000106595/" class=proflink>30-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/438/000106120/" class=proflink>1928</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/919/000069712/" class=proflink>Copenhagen, Denmark</a> Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Garnison's Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/866/000071653/" class=proflink>Lutheran</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/179/000068972/" class=proflink>Scientist</a>, <a href="/lists/632/000096344/" class=proflink>Doctor</a>Nationality: Denmark Executive summary: Caused cancer in lab ratsMilitary service: Danish Army Medical Corps (1894-97)Danish pathologist and physician Johannes Fibiger conducted important research into diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer. He won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his finding that the nematode Spiroptera carcinoma, which infests cockroaches, causes gastric tumors in rats when the rats eat the roaches. Later research has shown that Fibiger was mistaken -- a deficiency of Vitamin A caused the cancers in some of Fibiger's rats. The microscopic roundworms are now known to stimulate formation of tumors in cancerous cells, but they are not the cause of the cancer, since they do not trigger tumor formation in healthy cells. The nematode, called Spiroptera carcinoma in Fibiger's lifetime, has since been re-named Gongylonema neoplasticum. Perhaps embarrassed by Fibiger's Nobel Prize, it was forty years before the Nobel Foundation again offered its honors for cancer research. Fibiger was, however, the first scientist to induce cancer in lab animals, which was an meaningful advance in cancer research. It helped gain acceptance for the idea that cancer is caused by tissue irritation, and led other scientists to produce chemical carcinogens for use in cancer research. He married his cousin, Mathilde Fibiger, who was related closely enough to her husband that her maiden name was also Fibiger. She was not related to the famous Danish feminist of the same name. Father: Christian Emanuel August Fibiger (physician, b. 1819, d. 1873) Mother: Christine Dorothea Michelle Elfride Müller Fibiger (writer, b. 1832, d.) Brother: J鴕gen Nis Fibiger (architect, b. 23-Apr-1867 twin, d. 23-Oct-1836) Wife: Mathilde Fibiger (teacher, b. 20-Jan-1863, m. 4-Aug-1894, d. 17-Oct-1954) Daughter: Asta Betty Fibiger (b. 6-Aug-1900, d.)     University: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">BA, University of Copenhagen (1883)</a>     Teacher: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">MD, University of Copenhagen (1890)</a>     Medical School: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Bacteriology, University of Copenhagen (1891-94)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">PhD, University of Copenhagen (1895)</a>     Teacher: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Pathological anatomy, University of Copenhagen (1897-1900)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Pathological anatomy, University of Copenhagen (1900-28)</a>     <a href="/honors/214/000068010/">Nobel Prize for Medicine</a> 1926     <a href="/honors/109/000054944/">Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog</a>     <a href="/lists/974/000043845/">Danish Ancestry</a> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=126791" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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