Friedrich Wegener

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Friedrich Wegener (1907-1990) was a German pathologist who is known for his documentation of what has been known since the 1950s as Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare blood vessel inflammation.[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 awarded Wegener a “master clinician” prize in 1989.[1]

After his Nazi past was discovered in 2000, the chest physician group recinded the prize, and a movement to rename Wegener's granulomatosis began.[1]

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  1. ^ 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.
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