1. Rudi Schmid was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in hepatology.
11 Facts About Rudi Schmid
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Rudi Schmid was born on 2 May 1922 to physician parents.
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Rudi Schmid was born and raised in Glarus, which inspired his interest in mountain climbing.
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Rudi Schmid was a member of the Swiss national ski team from 1941 to 1945, and led the Academic Alpine Club while studying at the University of Zurich.
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In 1946, while still at university, Rudi Schmid became one of the first climbers to ascend Mont Blanc via its west face.
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Rudi Schmid graduated from medical school in 1947, and the next year helped organize an expedition to the Cordillera Blanca range in Peru for members of the Swiss Academic Club Alpine.
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Rudi Schmid was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, then worked for the National Institutes of Health before joining the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, a division of the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital.
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Rudi Schmid began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1962.
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Rudi Schmid was dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1983 to 1989.
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Rudi Schmid was later honored with the establishment of the Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at UCSF.
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Rudi Schmid died of pulmonary failure on 20 October 2007, at home in Kentfield, California, aged 85.