See Also: Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib(encyclopedia)
Brinkman, Johannes Andreas(encyclopedia)
Vesalius, Andreas(encyclopedia)
San Andreas Fault(encyclopedia)
San Andreas fault(dictionary)
Andreas Clinic(health)
Vesalius, Andreas(medicine)
Andreas (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Agios Andreas Hospital(health)
Papandreou, Andreas (Georgios)(encyclopedia)

Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib (sh)




born April 23, 1867, Silkeborg, Den.
died Jan. 30, 1928, Copenhagen

Danish pathologist.

He found that rats that had suffered stomach-tissue inflammation caused by the larvae of a worm infecting cockroaches the rats had eaten subsequently developed stomach tumours, and he induced tumours in mice and rats by feeding them infected cockroaches. His work, for which he received a 1926 Nobel Prize, supported the prevailing concept that cancer is caused by tissue irritation and led to production of chemical carcinogens for use in cancer research.