Emil Theodor Kocher
Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1841-1917)
- Fame58.3
- Momentum17.1
- Switzerland rank#138
- Fame58.3
- Momentum17.1
- Switzerland rank#138
- Doctors rank#82
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SwitzerlandHe made cutting into the throat routine. Before Kocher, thyroid surgery killed nearly half the patients who survived the table; after him, it killed fewer than one in a hundred.
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Emil Theodor Kocher was born in Switzerland on 25 August 1841 and trained as a physician at a time when operating meant gambling with sepsis and death. He brought aseptic technique and methodical science to the surgeon's trade, then turned his attention to the thyroid — a gland most colleagues considered too dangerous to touch. His systematic work on thyroid physiology, pathology, and surgical technique dropped operative mortality below 1%, transforming a near-certain death sentence into a survivable procedure. In 1909 he became the first Swiss citizen and the first surgeon to receive the Nobe…
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