Georg Schöne (14 November 1875 – 1 February 1960) was a German physician from

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

who is considered the first transplantation immunologist for his discovery that the body's own system causes

transplant rejection Transplant rejection occurs when Organ transplant, transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient's immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. Transplant rejection can be lessened by determining the molecular similitude between don ...

. His 1912 book ''Heteroplastische und Homoplastische Transplantation'' summarized his research.

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1875 births 1960 deaths Physicians from Berlin Place of death missing German immunologists {{Germany-med-bio-stub