In this German name, the surname is zur Hausen, not Hausen.
Harald zur Hausen
zur Hausen in 2010
Born
(1936-03-11)11 March 1936
Gelsenkirchen, Gau Westphalia-North, German Reich
Died
29 May 2023(2023-05-29) (aged 87)
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Known for
Discovery that HPV can cause cervical cancer
Awards
Ernst Jung Prize (1996)
Prince Mahidol Award (2005)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2008)
Scientific career
Fields
Virology
Institutions
German Cancer Research Center University of Heidelberg
Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (German pronunciation:[ˈhaʁalttsuːɐ̯ˈhaʊzn̩]ⓘ; 11 March 1936 – 29 May 2023) was a German virologist. He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. He was chairman of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg.
regarding the field of molecular biology. The 2008 award went to HaraldzurHausen in recognition of his discovery that human papillomavirus (HPV) can...
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oncoviruses were discovered to be contaminated by HeLa. In 1984, HaraldzurHausen discovered first HPV16 and then HPV18 responsible for approximately...
vaccination. HaraldzurHausen's support for vaccinating boys (so that they will be protected, and thereby so will women) was joined by professors Harald Moi and...
virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and HaraldzurHausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery...
the causal role of the HTLV-1 virus to ATL. Between 1984 and 1986 HaraldzurHausen and Lutz Gissmann discovered HPV16 and HPV18, together these Papillomaviridae...
that warts were caused by a virus infection. In 1976 the virologist HaraldzurHausen was the first to discover that warts were caused by the human papillomavirus...
Toshihide Maskawa Osamu Shimomura; Martin Chalfie; Roger Y. Tsien HaraldzurHausen; Françoise Barré-Sinoussi; Luc Montagnier J. M. G. Le Clézio Martti...
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), philosopher Ian Harding (born 1986), actor HaraldzurHausen (1936–2023), virologist, Nobel laureate Nico Hofmann (born 1959),...
Piet de Zoete, 79, Dutch footballer (ADO Den Haag, national team). HaraldzurHausen, 87, German virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (2008). Thomas Buergenthal...
development of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines. In the 1980s, HaraldzurHausen found that Lacks's cells from the original biopsy contained HPV-18...
became Nobel laureates, such as César Milstein, Susumu Tonegawa and HaraldzurHausen. Other notable awardees include Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk and John...
verruciformis was proposed by Stefania Jabłońska in Poland. In 1976 HaraldzurHausen published the hypothesis that human papilloma virus plays an important...
the Luftwaffe Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller (born 1929), musicologist HaraldzurHausen (born 1936), virologist, Nobel laureate (2008), 1983–2003 chief scientific...
In the early 1980s in the laboratory of later Nobel Prize laureate HaraldzurHausen he was the first (together with the postgraduates Matthias Dürst and...
cancer of Henrietta Lacks. 1976: HaraldzurHausen and Gisam found HPV DNA in cervical cancer and genital warts; Hausen later won the Nobel Prize for his...
and theologian Harald Helfgott (born 1977), Peruvian mathematician Harald Herborg Nielsen (1903–1973), American physicist HaraldzurHausen (1936–2023),...
strategy for a vaccination against certain forms of cancer, which earned HaraldzurHausen of the university the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008....
Sciences and Medicine. Price in common with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and HaraldzurHausen; 2011: Jules Hoffmann, Emeritus Research Director, Institute of Molecular...
in Physics in 2021 Vera Hatz – Royal Numismatic Society medallist HaraldzurHausen – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Ingo Heidbrink...
in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the discovery of HIV. HaraldzurHausen also shared the Prize for his discovery that human papilloma viruses...
relationship of telomeres to cancer. The 2008 prize was awarded in part to HaraldzurHausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses (HPV) causing cervical...
faculty include Medicine Nobel Laureates Bert Sakmann (1991) and HaraldzurHausen (2008), Chemistry Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell (2014), 7 Leibniz Laureates...
chemistry, 1902 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, alumni: chemistry, 1901 HaraldzurHausen, alumni: physiology and medicine, 2008 Walter Rudolf Hess, faculty...
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