31 Facts About Johannes Fibiger

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen.

Johannes Fibiger was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma".

Johannes Fibiger claimed to have shown that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma could cause stomach cancer in rats and mice.

Johannes Fibiger suspected that the roundworms were responsible for stomach cancer in those rats.

Johannes Fibiger's discovery was considered "the greatest contribution to experimental medicine" at the time.

Tumours and cancer produced by Johannes Fibiger were due to vitamin A deficiency.

Historical reassessment of Johannes Fibiger's data revealed that he had mistaken non-cancerous tumours for cancerous tumours.

Johannes Fibiger was the second son of Christian Ludvig Wilhelm Fibiger and Elfride Fibiger.

Johannes Fibiger's father was a local physician and his mother, an author.

Johannes Fibiger was named after his uncle, who was a clergyman and a poet.

Johannes Fibiger's father died of internal bleeding when he was three years of age, after which the family moved to Copenhagen where his mother earned their living by writing.

Johannes Fibiger's mother established there the first cooking school, the Copenhagen Cooking School.

Johannes Fibiger self-supported by teaching and working at the laboratories.

Johannes Fibiger continued for a medicine course and earned his medical degree in 1890.

Johannes Fibiger continued the diphtheria research at Blegdamshospitalet in Copenhagen, working as a Junior Physician.

Johannes Fibiger was promoted to full Professor and eventually its Director in 1900.

Johannes Fibiger died of cardiac arrest in Copenhagen on 30 January 1928.

Johannes Fibiger developed more efficient method of growing bacteria in a laboratory setting.

Johannes Fibiger discovered that there were two different forms of the diphtheria bacillus that produce two different symptoms, now called nasopharyngeal and cutaneous diphtheria.

Johannes Fibiger was known for his methodological system of research.

Johannes Fibiger hypothesised that the nematodes caused the stomach cancer.

Johannes Fibiger published his discovery in a series of three papers, and presented them at the Academie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, and Troisieme Conference Internationale pour l'Etude du Cancer at Brussels the same year.

Johannes Fibiger knew that the nematode was a new species, and provisionally named it Spiroptera carcinom in 1914.

Johannes Fibiger's experiment was the first to show that helminth parasites can cause cancer, and that cancer can be experimentally induced.

Johannes Fibiger's discovery was supported by the experiment of two Japanese scientists Katsusaburo Yamagiwa and Koichi Ichikawa in 1918.

Johannes Fibiger was survived by his wife and two children.

Johannes Fibiger was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 18 times from 1920.

On Johannes Fibiger, Bergstrand was of the same opinion, Hammersten was in favour.

However, the authority at the Karolinska Institute disagreed with the recommendation for Warburg for undisclosed reasons, and Johannes Fibiger became the sole winner.

In 1918, they argued that the cancerous tumours produced in Johannes Fibiger's experiments were similar to non-cancerous tumours.

Johannes Fibiger had used rats which were fed vitamin A-less diet.