RARE “Heme Oxygenase Pioneer” Rudi Schmid Hand Signed FDC Dated 1952 For Sale

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RARE “Heme Oxygenase Pioneer” Rudi Schmid Hand Signed FDC Dated 1952:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Heme Oxygenase" Rudi Schmid Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1952. 

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Rudi Schmid (2 May 1922 – 20

October 2007) was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing

in hepatology. Among his contributions to biomedical science,

Schmid led a team to discover heme oxygenase. Schmid

was born on 2 May 1922 to physician parents. He was born and raised in Glarus, which inspired his interest in mountain climbing.

Schmid became a skilled alpinist and skier. Schmid was a member of the Swiss

national ski team from 1941 to 1945, and led the Academic Alpine Club while

studying at the University of Zurich. In

1946, while still at university, Schmid became one of the first climbers to

ascend Mont Blanc via its

west face. He graduated from medical school in 1947, and the next year helped

organize an expedition to the Cordillera Blanca range

in Peru for members of the Swiss Academic Club Alpine. While recovering from

injuries during his time in Peru, Schmid met Salvatore Lucia, who suggested to

Schmid that he apply to the University

of California, San Francisco, where Lucia taught. After completing

the UCSF medical internship program, Schmid began his residency and doctoral

study at the University

of Minnesota Medical School under Cecil Watson and Samuel Schwartz. While pursuing advanced

medical studies, Schmid married Sonja Wild in Sacramento, and naturalized as an

American citizen in 1954, upon completing his degree. Schmid was a postdoctoral

researcher at Columbia University,

then worked for the National Institutes of

Health before joining the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, a

division of the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital. He

began teaching at the University of Chicago in

1962. Four years later, Schmid joined the UCSF faculty. He was dean of

the UCSF School of Medicine from

1983 to 1989. Over

the course of his career, Schmid was granted membership into the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and

the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was later honored with the establishment of

the Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at UCSF. Schmid

died of pulmonary failure on 20 October 2007, at home in Kentfield, California,

aged 85. 

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