Heinrich Albers-Schönberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German radiologist
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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
- Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (21 January 1865 – 4 June 1921) was a German gynecologist and radiologist.
- He was a native of Hamburg. He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig, where in 1891 he earned his medical doctorate under the guidance of Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910).
- From 1892 to 1894 he was an assistant at Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital, afterwards working as an assistant to gynecologist Paul Zweifel (1848–1927) at the University of Leipzig.
- Soon afterwards, he settled in Hamburg as a medical practitioner. In 1897, with internist Georg Deycke (1865–1938), he established an X-ray clinic and laboratory in Hamburg.
- Later, he was appointed head of the radiology department at St Georg Hospital.
- In 1919 he became a full professor and chair of radiology at the newly established University of Hamburg. Albers-Schönberg is credited with providing a description of osteopetrosis, a condition sometimes referred to as "Albers-Schönberg disease".
- It is described as a syndrome of excessive bone calcification causing a marble-like appearance with increased radiological density of the skeleton.He was an early specialist in the field of radiological medicine.
- In 1903 he discovered that exposure to radiation caused damage to the reproductive glands of rabbits.
- In cooperation with other scientists, he helped bring about numerous technical innovations into the field of radiology.
- He is credited with the introduction of radiation protection devices, procedures and equipment for radiation/dose assessment, the "orthoroentgenograph", and the compression diaphragm.
- He received a grand prize at the 1904 World's Fair in St.
- Louis; his diagnostic X-ray pictures far outclassed the competition in regards to clarity. In 1903 he published his best known work, a book on radiological techniques called Die Röntgentechnik - Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende (sixth edition, 1941).
- In 1905 he was a founding member of the Deutsche Röntgen-Gesellschaft (German Radiological Society).
- With Georg Deycke, he founded the journal Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen. His name is included on the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations erected in Hamburg in 1936.
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