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15. Hans Popper
15. Hans Popper
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His fertile imagination and intuition initiated or nurtured many of the field's major scientific advances, and his contributions encompassed all aspects of the liver in health and disease. Investigators all over the world sought his critical judgment because the Popper imprimatur, if granted, conferred scientific credibility to new findings and concepts.
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As Louis be expected in an intellectual family in oic! Vienna, Hans received a classical education based on the twin pillars of Greek and Latin, which he mastered so well that many years later he still was able to coauthor with Hans Elias a scientific article written in Latin!
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He was a natural leader whose intellectual dynamism and insatiable curiosity contributed materially to his charismatic personality; these personality traits, however, also explain an aspect of his professional style of which he was quite conscious and which at times bewildered!
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After graduation from medical school in 192S, the young physician spent his first five postgraduate years in anatomical pathology, which then was the conventional path to an academic career in medicine. But he soon became bored with mere descriptive research and established a biochemical laboratory within the pathology service which still exists tociay, cleclicatec!
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The years at the First Medical Clinic were among the most formative and productive of Popper's academic career, but because of the deteriorating political situation also his most stressful. As Germany's might grew, the increasingly menacing Nazi ideology spilled over into Austria, spawning widespread anti-Semitism and eventually leading to the annexation of this small country.
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Andrew Ivy, one of the era's leacling experimental pathologists, was so impressed with Hans' ability to identify small amounts of vitamin A in kidney sections that he became one of his closest friends and staunchest supporters. Fluorescence microscopy logically led to the liver, ant!
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In 1943 he was appointed director of the Cook County Hospital pathology service and professor of pathology in its Graduate School of Medicine. He also foundecl and directed the Hektoen Institute for Meclical Research, which became an important scientific component of the Cook County Hospital complex.
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On a blind date he met, and later married, Lina Billig, another Viennese expatriate who, with her great emotional strength and sensitivity, exquisite intellect and Old WorIcl charm, became a life-Ion" partner and compassionate supporter in all of his professional endeavors. Their honeymoon took them to Atlantic City, where Hans hack an exhibit at the annual convention of the American Medical Association.
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These included William Bean, Jesse BolIman, Richard Capps, Charlie Davidson, Paul Gyorgy, Franklin Hanger, Stanley Hartroft, Frederic Hoffbauer, Robert Kark, Gerald Klatskin, Leon Schiff, Hans Smetana, Fred Steigmann and Cecil Watson. This list is undoubtedly incomplete, because during the AASED's initial years the annual meetings were quite spontaneous and no records were kept of participants and programs.
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In the late 1940s at Yale he met Sheila Sherlock, whose ascendent academic career eventually made her the grancle dame of hepatology and whose lifelong friendship with Hans contributed much to the establishment of a worldwide network of hepatologists. In 195S, this led to the founding in Washington, D.C., of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (TASE)
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impact on the Mount Sinai Hospital as well as on his personal goals and professional activities. As ciepartment chairman in a large acaclemically oriented teaching hospital, he was responsible for a highly rated, extensive teaching program and a demanding pathology service, both of which he directecl with his usual brilliance and dynamic enthusiasm.
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At the age of seventy, he retired from his administrative positions in the medical school and was appointed for life as Mount Sinai's Gustave Levy Distinguished Service Professor. With the reduction in administrative responsibilities, Hans once again was able to concentrate all his energy, curiosity en c!
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Incredibly for a "retired" professor in his eighth decade, through prodigious reading he acquired this new knowledge with such proficiency that he was able to easily converse and interact with experts in these fields. Said Peter Scheuer, "Hans had the remarkable and genial gift of listening to information from a wide variety of different scientific disciplines en cl immediately synthesizina it into an updated view of the subject, which he could then transmit to those of us who could think neither so fast nor so clearly." Indelible are the memories of Hans Popper attentively sitting in the front row of international hepatology meetings, seldom leaving the proceedings, and always asking conceptual questions.
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Although he tract workocl under or with many outstanding scientists and role models, one idol hac! a particular influence on his scientific career.
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Not surprisingly, one of his particular concerns was support of the students and young scientific coworkers in whose intellectual development he took profound interest, and whose stimulating company he greatly enjoyed. There is no greater tribute to this outstanding scientist, teacher and academic leader than to conclucle by quoting the 1974 students' yearbook of Mount Sinai Medical School: Few times in life is one fortunate enough to come to know a man as rare as Dr.
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306 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS loves learning and who delights in sharing his knowledge with others. He loves life with an exuberance which he joyously imparts to those around him.
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and Popper, H Hepatic necrosis due to bromobenzene and its dependence upon available sulfur amino acids.
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et al. Studies on the transmission of human viral hepatitis to marmoset monkeys.
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et al. Chronic hepatitis in carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen, with intrahepatic expression of the delta antigen.
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