Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin (Hebrew: ליפמן היילפרין) (1902 - 26 September 1968) was an Israeli physician and director of the Neurology Department of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.[1]
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Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1902. He studied medicine in Germany and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934. In 1952, Heilprin composed the Hebrew Hippocratic Oath.
Heilprin was the first recipient of the Israel Prize for medicine, which was awarded to him in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize.[2]