Zellweger, Hans

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Zellweger, Hans
Date of birth
1909-06-19
Date of death
1990-02-24
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 57982399
Wikidata: Q1582838
Library of congress: n 83002690
Sources of Information
  • Chromosomes of man, 1977:title page (Hans Zellweger, professor emeritus, University of Iowa Hospital)
  • NLM files, September 26, 2016:(hdg.: Zellweger, Hans; middle name is Ulrich ; born 1909)
  • Ionasescu, V. Genetics in neurology, c1983 (a.e.)CIP t.p. (Hans Zellweger, M.D.; Dept. of Pediatrics, Univ. of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City)

Wikipedia description:

Hans Ulrich Zellweger (19 June 1909, in Lugano – 24 February 1990, in Iowa City, Iowa) was a Swiss-American pediatrician known for his research on Zellweger syndrome. Zellweger trained in Zurich, Hamburg, Rome and Berlin and received his doctorate in Zurich in 1934, where he worked until 1950. In the 1950s he was appointed Professor at the American University in Beirut and from 1959 until his retirement in 1977, he was Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Iowa. There he performed research on neuromuscular disorders and genetic diseases and is known for his research on Zellweger syndrome which is named after him.

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