"Heme Oxygenase" Rudi Schmid Hand Signed FDC Dated 1952 Todd Mueller COA

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"Heme Oxygenase" Rudi Schmid Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1952.
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Rudi Schmid
(2 May 1922 – 20 October 2007) was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in
hepatology
. Among his contributions to biomedical science, Schmid led a team to discover
heme oxygenase
.
Schmid was born on 2 May 1922 to physician parents. He was born and raised in
Glarus
, which inspired his interest in mountain climbing. Schmid became a skilled alpinist and skier. Schmid was a member of the Swiss national ski team from 1941 to 1945, and led the Academic Alpine Club while studying at the
University of Zurich
. In 1946, while still at university, Schmid became one of the first climbers to ascend
Mont Blanc
via its west face. He graduated from medical school in 1947, and the next year helped organize an expedition to the
Cordillera Blanca
range in Peru for members of the Swiss Academic Club Alpine. While recovering from injuries during his time in Peru, Schmid met Salvatore Lucia, who suggested to Schmid that he apply to the
University of California, San Francisco
, where Lucia taught. After completing the UCSF medical internship program, Schmid began his residency and doctoral study at the
University of Minnesota Medical School
under
Cecil Watson
and Samuel Schwartz. While pursuing advanced medical studies, Schmid married Sonja Wild in Sacramento, and naturalized as an American citizen in 1954, upon completing his degree. Schmid was a postdoctoral researcher at
Columbia University
, then worked for the
National Institutes of Health
before joining the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, a division of the Harvard Medical Unit at
Boston City Hospital
. He began teaching at the
University of Chicago
in 1962. Four years later, Schmid joined the UCSF faculty. He was dean of the
UCSF School of Medicine
from 1983 to 1989.
Over the course of his career, Schmid was granted membership into the
National Academy of Sciences
, the
Institute of Medicine
, and the
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
. He was later honored with the establishment of the Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at UCSF.
Schmid died of pulmonary failure on 20 October 2007, at home in
Kentfield, California
, aged 85.