Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 – 1917

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Emil Theodor Kocher, M.D., and his Nobel Prize (1841-1917).

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917)--orthopaedic surgeon and the first surgeon Nobel Prize winner.

Theodor Emil Kocher (1841-1917), born in Bern, educated in many universities in Europe. Kocher as many surgeons of that time performed orthopedic surgery, general surgery, neurosurgery and endocrine surgery, but he become famous in orthopaedic surgery and endocrine surgery. He is remember as a surgeon who described the approach to the hip joint, elbow joint, maneuver for the reduction of disloc...

Theodor E. Kocher (1841-1917): Nobel surgeon of the last century.

Theodor Kocher was born in Bern on 23 August 1841 to an old family of the Berne Lake district. His father was chief engineer for the Canton Berne. He studied at the University of Berne, and after finishing his MD, took a study trip to Berlin, London, and Paris to acquaint himself with the state of the art in medical science. He did a lot of experimental work on the thyroid gland & was the first...

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, ...