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

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

transplant rejection Transplant rejection occurs when 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 donor and recipien ...

. 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