Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen – A legend

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912)--the 100th anniversary of the death of the discoverer of Mycobacterium leprae.

The year 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), a Norwegian physician known for his identification of Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent of leprosy. In the second half of the 19th century, the medical community believed leprosy had a noninfectious etiology, and it was not until Hansen uncovered the relationship between M leprae and ...

Armauer Hansen (1841-1912): discoverer of the cause of leprosy.

Armauer Hansen and human leprosy transmission: medical ethics and legal rights.

../ The centenary of the discovery of the leprosy hacillus is an appropriate occasion on which to revive the Illelllory of a criminal prosecution which is quite exceptional , at any rate in Norwcgian legal annals. The special interest of the case lies pmtly in its close concern with the personal and professional integrity of an eminent physician and scientist, and partly in its probing of the q...

Mourning a music legend

Holy Cross College could expand its degree programs to o ffer fo u r -y e a r b a c h e l o r ’s d e g re e s in th e n e a r fu tu re , according to proposals currently being developed at the College. Pending accred ita t ion from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Holy Cross wants to o ffer a fouryear bachelor of arts degree in addition to the tw o -y ea r a s s o c i a t ...