JOHANNES ANDREAS GRIB FIBIGER

Johannes Fibiger was born at Silkeborg on April 23, 1867 and died at Copenhagen on January 30, 1928 because of cardiac failure with multiple emboli and massive pulmonary infarcts; colon cancer. He was a resident of Denmark and affiliated with Copenhagen University. His father was a local medical practitioner and his mother was a writer.

Fibiger gained his bachelors degree in 1883 and qualified as a doctor in 1890. His career ranged from working in hospitals, working as an assistant professor at Copenhagen University in the biology department, to serving as an army reserve doctor at Blegdam Hospital(the Hospital for Infectious Diseases) where he completed his doctorate thesis on "Research into the bacteriology of diphtheria"(he received his doctorate from Copenhagen in 1895 and was appointed prosecutor of Pathological Anatomy, Principal of the Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology of the Army, and Director of the Central Laboratory of the Army and Consultant Physician to the Army Medical Service..) In 1900 he was appointed Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Copenhagen University and Director of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy.

Though Fibiger is recognized for numerous achievements and research but his most impressive achievement was when he received the Nobel Prize in 1926 for his work on cancer, his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma.