Albert NeisserBorn 22 Jan 1855; died 30 Jul 1916 at age 61.Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who specialized in dermatology and venereal diseases. He discovered gonococcus (1879), the small bacterium that causes gonorrhea. In Norway, he examined patients afflicted with leprosy and demonstrated the existence of the bacillus causing the disease (1879). He was the first to make the connection clear between it and the disease. In his studies of syphilis, he failed to find a successful innoculation against the disease, and may even have spread it instead. |
