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German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925)
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wassermann
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Wasserman or Wassermann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aaron E. Wasserman (1920–2015), American food scientist Aharon Wasserman (born 1986), American entrepreneur and software designer Anatoly Wasserman (born 1952), Russian journalist ...
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test for syphillis, 1909, from German bacteriorologist August Paul Wassermann (1866-1925), who devised it in 1906.
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They included, among German writers, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Jakob Wassermann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Walther Rathenau, Albert Einstein, Alfred Kerr and Hugo Preuss, the last named being the scholar who had drafted the Weimar Constitution.
His nine servants all had to take a Bible test and a Wassermann test before he hired them, and they had to attend family prayers.
Imagine estimating philosophers by their chest expansions, their blood pressures, their Wassermann reactions!
The Wassermann reaction on the spinal fluid was--we will say--negative.
Roheim, Jacob Breuer, Richard Krafft-Ebing, Paul Ehrlich, Robert Koch, Wagner von Jauregg, August von Wassermann, Gregor Mendel, Erich Tschermak, Paul Corremans.