Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin ( he, ליפמן היילפרין) (1902 – 26 September 1968) was an Israeli
physician
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and director of the
Neurology
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...
Department of
Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
.
Biography
Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was born in
Białystok,
Poland
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in 1902. He studied medicine in
Germany
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and immigrated to
Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
in 1934. In 1952, Heilprin composed the
Hebrew
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Hippocratic Oath.
Awards
Heilprin was the first recipient of the
Israel Prize for
medicine
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, which was awarded to him in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize.
See also
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List of Israel Prize recipients
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List of German Jews
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that ...
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Heilprin
References
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20th-century Israeli Jews
Israel Prize in medicine recipients
Israeli neurologists
Jews in Mandatory Palestine
People from Białystok
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
1902 births
1968 deaths