Friedrich Wegener
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Friedrich Wegener (1907-1990) was a German pathologist who is notable for his description of a rare disease. Although this disease was known before Wegener's description, since the 1950s it has been called by the name Wegener's granulomatosis.[1]
Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1932.[1] As a relatively high ranking military doctor he spent some of the war in a medical office three blocks from the Lodz Ghetto, a Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland.[1] There is speculation that he participated in experiments on concentration camp inmates.[1]
The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) awarded Wegener a “master clinician” prize in 1989.[1] After his Nazi past was discovered in 2000, the ACCP rescinded the prize and, separately, a campaign was begun to rename Wegener's granulomatosis to ANCA-associated granulomatous vasculitis .[1]
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- ^ a b c d e f Feder, Barnaby J. (2008-01-22). "A Nazi Past Casts a Pall on Name of a Disease". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/health/22dise.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.
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