Theodor Kocher 1841–1917

Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 – 1917

Emil Theodor Kocher--valve surgery for epilepsy.

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) was a pioneering and versatile Swiss surgeon who played a decisive role in the surgical evolution on the threshold to the 20th century. Apart from conducting intense research and fostering the development of the surgical treatment of thyroid gland diseases (honored with a Nobel Prize in 1909), he remained a generalist and was active in orthopedic, genitourinary, ...

Theodor Kocher (1841-1917)--a surgical maestro.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/dsu The name Theodor Kocher (fig. 1) is obviously known to surgeons working not only in his hometown Bern, Switzerland, but also in the rest of the world. Outside Bern, probably, his name today is usually connected to ‘the Kocher maneuver’, or to some instrument, rather than to the 1909 Nobel laureate. Bern’s doctors and surgeons are proud of Theodo...

Emil Theodor Kocher : an innovator surgeon

Emil Theodor Kocher is considered along with Frank Lahey, Theodor Billroth, William Halsted, Charles Mayo, George Crile and Thomas Dunhill as one of the «Magnificent Seven», referring to the group of surgeons who managed thyroidectomy to make it a safe and efficient intervention that it is now practiced throughout the world. He was author of numerous contributions towards medicine. One of his m...

Der Nobelpreisträger Theodor Kocher 1841—1917

grounds. From the mean score of a group you cannot say anything at all about the score of one exceptional member of the group, as Simonton must know. In another case Simonton assesses the relationship of educational level to rated eminence in Cox's sample of 301 eminent figures from history. He finds that, among the 192 "creators" (artists, scientists, etc.) in this sample, the most eminent had...