Erwin Popper

Erwin Popper ( * December 9, 1879; † September 28, 1955 ) was an Austrian physician, who in 1908 discovered the infectious character of polio along with Karl Landsteiner.

Popper received his doctorate in 1903 in Vienna and was subsequently first military doctor in the artillery. From 1904 to 1905 he was aspirant and secondary physician at Wiedner Hospital in Vienna, then at the big hospital. In 1911, he joined as an assistant doctor at the children's department of the General Policlinic. From 1918 he was a pediatrician in Vienna and head of the children outpatient clinic of the Vienna health insurance. In 1938 he emigrated to England and was, until 1942 Medical Officer in children's homes, then from 1942 to 1945 Resident Medical Officer in Cheshire.

Source

• Paul Speiser: Karl Landsteiner, the discoverer of blood groups and pioneer of Immunology; Biography of a Nobel laureate from the Vienna School of Medicine. 3 unveränd. Ed Berlin 1990 Blackwell Ueberreuter Wiss, ISBN 3-89412-084-3, page 150