RARE! "Father of Hepatology" Hans Popper Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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RARE! "Father of Hepatology" Hans Popper Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Hans Popper
(24 November 1903 – 6 May 1988) was a pathologist, hepatologist and teacher. Together with Dame
Sheila Sherlock
, he is widely regarded as the founding father of
hepatology
. Popper was born to Carl and Emilie Popper in Vienna on 24 November 1903. His father was a prominent physician and, as a captain in the medical corps, was called to active army duty at the outbreak of World War I. Hans Popper received a classical education at the
Akademische Gymnasium
and followed his father's footsteps by entering the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1922 and graduating in 1928. Popper spent his five postgraduate years in anatomical pathology and established a biochemical laboratory, which at the time was a new field of medical research. He worked under the famous Viennese physician Professor
Hans Eppinger
, under whose influence he developed his interest in hepatology. One of his main achievements of this period was the creatinine clearance test to assess renal function. After Austria's
Anschluß
to the
Third Reich
in 1938, Popper (who was Jewish) narrowly escaped arrest by boarding a flight to Rotterdam, where he then boarded the
SS New Amsterdam
on her maiden voyage to New York.
He received a research fellowship at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and earned a PhD in pathology at the University of Illinois. He held a succession of senior positions at this institution, including Director of Pathology. He became Scientific Director for the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research and Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University School of Medicine. He was the driving force behind the founding of the
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
, which first met in 1948. In 1957, he was appointed pathologist-in-chief at the
Mount Sinai Hospital
in New York, succeeding
Paul Klemperer
. There, he was pivotal in the founding of the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
, becoming its first dean. In 1973, he became the Gustave L. Levy Distinguished Service Professor and maintained this position until his death.