Harald zur hausen biography definition

by Hanna Kurlanda-Witek

Harald zur Hausen

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in for “his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”.

Harald zur Hausen was born on 11 March in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, the youngest of four children.

He was interested in science as a child, but the bombing raids of the Second World War forced schools to close, disrupting his primary school education. Zur Hausen studied medicine at the University of Bonn and attended courses in biology for the first two years of study.

He spent a year at the University of Hamburg and at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf, graduating in By this time, zur Hausen was convinced he wanted to become a researcher, yet he decided to obtain his medical license. During the next two years of his medical internship he became particularly interested in gynaecology and obstetrics, but eventually chose to focus on research at the Institute of Microbiology at th