Oskar Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski] 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship...

was a younger brother of the medical researcher Oskar (born 1858). In different sources Minkowski's nationality is variously given as German, Polish...

Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor Oskar Minkowski...

hormone for chemicals that act in this way. Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski made the observation in 1889 that removing the pancreas surgically...

insipidus in 1794. In regard to diabetes mellitus, Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski are commonly credited with the formal discovery (1889) of a role for...

German-American astronomer. Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and...

Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin...

helped to understand this regulatory role. In 1889, the physician Oskar Minkowski, in collaboration with Joseph von Mering, removed the pancreas from...

mother) Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1922) (Jewish father) Oskar Minkowski, physiologist Albert Neisser, physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea...

presumably because of its fleshy consistency. It was only in 1889 when Oskar Minkowski discovered that removing the pancreas from a dog caused it to become...