Directed the first Danish polio vaccination programme
Medical career
Profession
Physician
Field
Virology
Preben Christian Alexander von Magnus (25 February 1912 – 9 August 1973) was a Danish virologist who is known for his research on influenza, polio vaccination and monkeypox. He gave his name to the Von Magnus phenomenon.
In the 1950s, together with his wife the virologist Herdis von Magnus, he directed the first Danish vaccination programme against polio. In 1958, he was the first to confirm the identity of the monkeypox virus and to describe monkeypox in laboratory crab-eating Macaques during two outbreaks of the disease in the summer and autumn of that year. In 1959 he was appointed director of the Statens Serum Institut.
He represented Denmark at the 1959 Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs where he explained that respiratory viruses such as influenza and the common cold were unsuitable as biological weapons. He became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1965.
Preben Christian Alexander vonMagnus (25 February 1912 – 9 August 1973) was a Danish virologist who is known for his research on influenza, polio vaccination...
already immunocompromised. Monkeypox virus was first identified by PrebenvonMagnus in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1958 in crab-eating macaque monkeys (Macaca...
in vitro and transferred to a surrogate mother. Danish virologist PrebenvonMagnus gives the first confirmation of monkeypox virus and description of...
Nobel laureate in medicine (1984) PrebenvonMagnus (1912–1973), Danish virologist, who gave name to the VonMagnus phenomenon Jens Otto Krag (1914–1978)...
bacteriophages. October – Danish virologist PrebenvonMagnus publishes his observation of the vonMagnus phenomenon producing defective interfering particles...
July 1 – Laurens Hammond (b. 1895), American inventor August 9 – PrebenvonMagnus (b. 1912), Danish virologist August 12 – Walter Rudolf Hess (b. 1881)...
"Peder von Cappelen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 November 2019. Mardal, Magnus A. "Eilert Waldemar Preben Ramm"...
Cambridge University Press, 1969. 2. ISBN 0-521-07319-7 Mardal, Magnus A. "Eilert Waldemar Preben Ramm". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian)...
Germanic Mythology] (in German). C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3406528378. Sørensen, Preben M. (2002). "Þorr's Fishing Expedition (Hymiskviða)". In Acker, Paul; Larrington...
supported Magnus Erlingsson (1156–1184), the son of Earl Erling Ormsson and Princess Kristin Sigurdsdotter. In 1184, having defeated King Magnus, Sverre...
(1803-1824) Jens Magnus Berg (1824-1844) Johanne Francisca von Westen gift Berg (1844-1851) Christian von Westen Berg (1851-1853) Enke Fru von Westen Berg...
original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2020. Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben (1986). "Thor's Fishing Expedition". In Steinsland, Gro (ed.). Words and...
Christoffer Sundgren Roger Svanberg Magnus Swartling Leif Sätter Daniel Tenn Anders Thidholm Jan Ullsten Carl von Wendt Lars Wernblom Christer Wessel...
Won the Jury Grand Prix at Berlin I, a Woman Mac Ahlberg Essy Persson, Preben Mahrt, Jørgen Reenberg Drama Jeg - en kvinde Co-production with Denmark...
PMC 7432573. PMID 32067420. Bohlin, J.; Håberg, S. E.; Magnus, P.; Reese, S. E.; Gjessing, H. K.; Magnus, M. C.; Parr, C. L.; Page, C. M.; London, S. J.; Nystad...
Organization. 41 (3): 608–609. hdl:10665/262515. PMC 2427740. PMID 5309485. vonMagnus, Preben (1969). "Experience with the production of Hong Kong influenza vaccine...
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