Emil Theodor Kocher
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 Emil Theodor Kocher |
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| Born | August 25, 1841 Berne, Switzerland |
| Died | July 27, 1917 (aged 75) |
| Profession | Surgeon |
| Institutions | University of Berne |
| Known for | Developer of Thyroid surgery |
| Notable prizes | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1909) |
Emil Theodor Kocher (August 25, 1841 – July 27, 1917) was a Swiss physician, medical researcher, and Nobel laureate for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.
Kocher was born in Berne, Switzerland. He studied in Zürich, Berlin, London and Vienna, and obtained his doctorate in Berne in 1865. In 1872, he succeeded Georg Albert Lücke as Ordinary Professor of Surgery and Director of the University Surgical Clinic at the Inselspital in Berne. He published works on a number of subjects other than the thyroid gland including hemostasis, antiseptic treatments, surgical infectious diseases, on gunshot wounds, acute osteomyelitis, the theory of strangulated hernia, and abdominal surgery. His new ideas on the thyroid gland were initially controversial but his successful treatment of goiter with a steadily decreasing mortality rate soon won him recognition. The prize money, from the Nobel prize he received, helped him to establish the Kocher Institute in Berne.
A number of instruments and surgical techniques (for example, the Kocher manoeuvre) are named after him, as well as the Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome.
- Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1901-1921, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1967
- Universität Bern - Theodor Kocher at www.tki.unibe.ch
- Universität Bern - Theodor Kocher Institut - Home at www.tki.unibe.ch
- Emil Theodor Kocher
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