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6 unusual facts about Rudolf Virchow


Cancer cell

However, Sir Rudolf Virchow, a German biologist and politician, is generally credited with discovering the first cancer cells.

Deep vein thrombosis

In 1856, German physician and pathologist Rudolf Virchow published what is referred to as Virchow's triad, the three major causes of thrombosis.

German Free-minded Party

Under party chairman Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg with his deputies Albert Hänel and Rudolf Virchow however, the Free-minded Party received disappointing 17.6% of the votes in the 1884 election, representing a drop of 3.6% from the combined parties' results in the previous 1881 election.

Rudolf Virchow lecture

The lecture is held in honour of the German physician, archaeologist and politician Rudolf Virchow and his contributions to German archaeology, whilst at the same time also honouring the outstanding accomplishments of the invited speaker.

Virchow Hill

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German pioneer of pathological research.

Wilson Fox

After a year spent as house physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he passed several years in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, being for two years in the last city a pupil of the great pathologist Virchow.


Bernard Sachs

After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the more prominent physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902), Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), Theodor Meynert (1833–1892), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), and John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911).

Bernhard Hantzsch

Having secured almost 15,000 marks from the Society of Friends of Nature Institution of Berlin, the Rudolf Virchow Foundation of Berlin, and King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Hantzsch was prepared to spend three years on Baffin Island.

Gustav Veit

It was included in Rudolf Virchow's Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie (Textbook of Specialized Pathology and Therapy).

Isaac Andreyevich Chatzkin

He published, besides, Russian translations of the "Introduction to Medical Science," by Professor Lebert, and Rudolf Virchow's "Cellular Pathology."

Paul Langerhans

In 1871, Rudolf Virchow arranged a position for him as prosector in pathological anatomy at the University of Freiburg, and within two years he became a full professor.

Wilhelm Roux

He also attended university in Berlin and Strasbourg and studied under Gustav Schwalbe, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Rudolf Virchow.


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