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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Basil Hirschowitz</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Basil Isaac Hirschowitz</b> (* <a href="29._Mai" title="29. Mai">29. Mai</a> <a href="1925" title="1925">1925</a> in <a href="Bethal" title="Bethal">Bethal</a>, <a href="S%C3%BCdafrika" title="Südafrika">Südafrika</a>; † <a href="19._Januar" title="19. Januar">19. Januar</a> <a href="2013" title="2013">2013</a> in <a href="Birmingham_(Alabama)" title="Birmingham (Alabama)">Birmingham</a>, <a href="Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>) war ein akademischer <a href="Gastroenterologie" title="Gastroenterologie">Gastroenterologe</a> an der <a href="University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham" title="University of Alabama at Birmingham">University of Alabama at Birmingham</a>.
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<p>Er absolvierte seine medizinische Ausbildung an der <a href="Witwatersrand-Universit%C3%A4t" title="Witwatersrand-Universität">Witwatersrand-Universität</a>, wo er 1943 seinen <a href="Bachelor_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor of Science">Bachelor of Science</a> in Chemie, 1947 seine Bachelor-Abschlüsse in Medizin (MB) und Chirurgie (ChB) und 1954 seinen medizinischen Doktortitel (M.D.) erwarb. 1948 bis 1949 war er House Officer im Johannesburg General Hospital, ging 1950 nach London und war 1951 bis 1953 Registrar am Central Middlesex Hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>1953 ging er in die USA, wo er zunächst einer Magen-Darm-Forschungsgruppe an der <a href="University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> angehörte, Instructor und später Assistant Professor in der Abteilung für Innere Medizin war. 1957 wurde er Assistant Professor an der <a href="Temple_University" title="Temple University">Temple University</a> und 1959 Associate Professor am Medical College of Alabama, an dem er 1964 Professor wurde und 1959 bis 1988 die Abteilung Gastroenterologie leitete.
</p><p>Um 1955–1958 entwickelte er mit C. Wilbur Peter und Lawrence E. Curtiss eine verbesserte optische Faser,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was das erste flexible <a href="Endoskop" title="Endoskop">Endoskop</a> ermöglichte. Er befasste sich mit Krankheiten des Magen-Darm-Trakts, der Physiologie des Magens und Mechanismen und Therapie von Überproduktion von Magensäure.
</p><p>Er war seit 1958 verheiratet. 1961 wurde er in den USA eingebürgert.
</p><p>Hirschowitz war Fellow des <a href="Royal_College_of_Physicians" title="Royal College of Physicians">Royal College of Physicians</a> und des <a href="Royal_College_of_Physicians_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh">Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh</a>, Fellow der Royal Society of Medicine und der <a href="American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>.
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<ul><li>Schindler Medal der American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (1973)</li>
<li>Friedenwald Medal der American Gastroenterological Association (1992)</li>
<li><a href="Kettering-Preis" title="Kettering-Preis">General Motors Cancer Research Awards Kettering Prize</a> (1987)</li>
<li><a href="Ehrendoktor" title="Ehrendoktor">Ehrendoktor</a> der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_G%C3%B6teborg" title="Universität Göteborg">Universität Göteborg</a> (2006)</li></ul>
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130104000940/http://www.uab.edu/medicine/gastroenterology/faculty/basil-hirschowitz-md"><i>Basil Hirschowitz, MD, Professor Emeritus </i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 4. Januar 2013 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090925030452/http://www.gastrohep.com/profiles/default.asp?person=bhirschowitz"><i>BasilHirschowitz</i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 25. September 2009 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/birmingham-al/basil-hirschowitz-5389121">Nachruf</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Karrieredaten nach <i>American Men and Women of Science</i>, Thomson Gale 2004</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=4oMu7RbGpqUC&pg=PA61&hl=de">Jeff Hecht: <i>City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics</i>; S. 61f</a></span>
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