Johannes Fibiger

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger ( born April 23 1867 in Silkeborg, Denmark, † January 30, 1928 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pathologist. Fibiger yielded substantial work on infectious diseases. For his discovery of the Spiropterakarzinoms he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for 1926, which was awarded in 1927.

Life

Fibinger worked from 1894 to 1897 as a reserve army of the physician at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases ( Blegdam Hospital) in Copenhagen. After his doctorate on the bacteriology of diphtheria at the University of Copenhagen in 1895, he turned to the study of tuberculosis. He became in 1900 a professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he officiated in the academic year 1925/26, as rector.

2009, the lunar crater Fibiger was named after him.

Research

The assumption Fibigers to have generally identified with its investigations into the Spiropterakarzinom cancer as infectious disease, later turned out to be a mistake.

Writings (selection )

• Studies on a nematode ( Spiroptera sp. N ) and their ability to cause papillomatous and carcinomatous tumor formation in the rat stomach. In: Journal of Cancer Research. Vol 13 (1913 ), pp. 217-280.
• Investigations on Spiroptera carcinoma and the experimental induction of cancer. In: Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1965, pp. 122-150 (Nobel Prize lecture, online).