Fibiger won a Nobel Prize in 1926

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (April 23, 1867 - January 30, 1928) was a Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to find an organism he called Spiroptera carcinoma that caused cancer in mice and rats. Later, it was shown that this specific organism was not the primary cause of the tumors. Because of this, some consider Fibiger's Nobel Prize to be undeserved, but others credit Fibiger with showing that external stimuli can induce cancer. Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, 1926 Nobel Prize winner From the NIH website, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. ... Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, 1926 Nobel Prize winner From the NIH website, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Jump to: navigation, search When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... Jump to: navigation, search MICE is an acronym for: Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment Money, Ideology, Compromise, Ego, four factors by which spies may be recruited. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ...

Research

While studying tuberculosis in lab rats, Fibiger found tumors in some of his rats. He discovered that these tumors were associated with parasitic nematode worms that had been living in some cockroaches that the rats had eaten. He thought that these organisms may have been the cause of the cancer. In fact, the rats had been suffering from a vitamin A deficency and this was the main cause of the tumors. The parasites had merely caused the tissue irritation that drove the damaged cells into cancer; any tissue irritation could have induced the tumors. Although the specific link between the parasites and cancer was later known to be relatively unimportant, the idea that tissue damage was a cause of cancer was still an important advance in cancer research. Jump to: navigation, search Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... See the article about cancer for the main article about malignant tumors. ... Classes Adenophora    Subclass Enoplia    Subclass Chromadoria Secernentea    Subclass Rhabditia    Subclass Spiruria    Subclass Diplogasteria The roundworms (Phylum Nematoda) are one of the most common phyla of animals, with over 20,000 different described species. ... Jump to: navigation, search Families Blaberidae Blattellidae Blattidae Cryptocercidae Polyphagidae Nocticolidae Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea (the name Blattaria is also seen). ... Retinol, the dietary form of vitamin A, is a fat-soluble, antioxidant vitamin important in vision and bone growth. ...

Biography

Fibinger was born in Silkeborg, Denmark. He became a medical doctor in 1890 and studied under Robert Koch and Emil Adolf von Behring in Berlin. He received his research doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 1895 and became a professor there. He died in Copenhagen. Hjejlen (The Golden Plover) is an historic steamboat that sails from Silkeborg to Himmelbjerget. ... Robert Koch For the American lobbyist, see Bobby Koch. ... Emil Adolf von Behring (March 15, 1854 - March 31, 1917) was born at Hansdorf, Eylau, Germany. ... University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ...

External links

• Nobel Prize Biography
• Biography from WhoNamedIt