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Emil Theodor Kocher [1841-1917] Swiss
Rank: 106
Scientist, Physician


Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.


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The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.
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Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
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