Oskar Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski,-ˈkɒf-/;[1]German:[mɪŋˈkɔfski] 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski.
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OskarMinkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski] 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship...
was a younger brother of the medical researcher Oskar (born 1858). In different sources Minkowski's nationality is variously given as German, Polish...
Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor Oskar Minkowski...
German-American astronomer. Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist OskarMinkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and...
insipidus in 1794. In regard to diabetes mellitus, Joseph von Mering and OskarMinkowski are commonly credited with the formal discovery (1889) of a role for...
helped to understand this regulatory role. In 1889, the physician OskarMinkowski, in collaboration with Joseph von Mering, removed the pancreas from...
presumably because of its fleshy consistency. It was only in 1889 when OskarMinkowski discovered that removing the pancreas from a dog caused it to become...
absence of a substance normally produced by the pancreas. In 1869, OskarMinkowski and Joseph von Mering found that diabetes could be induced in dogs...
Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with OskarMinkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin...
Jewish community by the merchant Lewin Boruch Minkowski, the father of OskarMinkowski and Hermann Minkowski; until 1873 he also subsidized the major part...
knowledge concerning diabetes mellitus. The Prize honors the name of OskarMinkowski (1858–1931), a physician and physiologist who was the discoverer of...
such as the Danone International prize for nutrition (2008), the OskarMinkowski Prize (1998) and the Morgagni Gold Medal. He is on the editorial board...
mother) Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1922) (Jewish father) OskarMinkowski, physiologist Albert Neisser, physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea...
independence. History of diabetes influence Paul Langerhans Joseph von Mering OskarMinkowski Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Frederick Banting Charles Best James...
centre and the old town. OskarMinkowski, diabetes research pioneer Hermann Minkowski, mathematician, creator of Minkowski space Ona Juodytė-Chadaravičienė...
range) required. In the 1920s, researchers in the diabetes clinic of OskarMinkowski have shown that agmatine can exert mild hypoglycemic effects. In 1994...
rabbi Harvey Milk, gay politician in the U.S. Hermann Minkowski, mathematician OskarMinkowski, physiologist Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel...
Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947) January 13 – OskarMinkowski, Lithuanian physician (d. 1931) January 22 – Frederick Lugard, 1st...
Adam Mickiewicz, Romantic poet Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and one of Einstein's teachers OskarMinkowski, physician and medical researcher Donatas...
– Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896) 1858 – OskarMinkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931) 1859 – Kostis Palamas...
German Empire 1902, 1903, 1906 Nominated jointly with O.Minkowski only(id=9823) OskarMinkowski 13 January 1858 Aleksotas, Russian Empire 18 June 1931...
Academy of Medicine of Belgium. In 2013, her work was awarded the OskarMinkowski prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Miriam...
disorders: "Minkowski-Chauffard disease": Congenital hemolytic anemia with spherocytosis, splenomegaly and jaundice. Named with OskarMinkowski (1858–1931)...
its kind in Germany. Gerhardt Katsch is widely regarded – alongside OskarMinkowski and Karl Stolte – as one of the three principal pioneers of modern...
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