Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (German: [ˈɪɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp [ˈsɛmmɛlvɛjs ˈiɡnaːts ˈfyløp]; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865)...

clinics. Ignaz Semmelweis was born in the house on 1 July 1818; he was the fifth child of Joseph Semmelweis and Theresia Müller. The Semmelweis family were...

The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts...

Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that hand-washing with a solution of chlorinated lime reduced the incidence of fatal childbed fever tenfold in maternity...

assessed by an official commission, which discarded his mosquito theory. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian obstetrician working at the Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines...

Labarraque's chlorine and chemical base solutions was in 1847, when Ignaz Semmelweis used chlorine-water (chlorine dissolved in pure water, which was cheaper...

extreme that Semmelweis moved from Vienna and, following a breakdown, was eventually committed to a mental asylum, where he died. Semmelweis was not the...

Semmelweis University (Hungarian: Semmelweis Egyetem, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɛmːɛlvɛjs ˈɛɟɛtɛm]) is a research-led medical school in Budapest, Hungary...

charité-Krankenhauses zu Berlin. 1: 485–523: 501. quoted in Semmelweis (1861):225-227 Semmelweis, Ignaz (1861). Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed...

research led to Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister researching the importance of sanitized hands in medical work. In the 1840s, Semmelweis' observations...