Adolfo Ferrata
Adolfo Ferrata (26 April 1880 in
In 1904 he earned his medical degree from the University of Parma, spending the following years performing scientific research in clinics at Parma, Berlin and Naples. From 1921 to 1924 he was a professor of special medical pathology at the Universities of Messina and Siena, afterwards serving as a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pavia, a position he kept for the remainder of his career.[1]
Among his contributions to medical science are investigations on the structure and
In 1907 he was the first scientist to show that the complement could be split into two components that were singularly inactive, only regaining their activity when reunited.[3]
In 1920 Ferrata founded the journal "Haematologica".[4]
Associated eponym
- "Ferrata cell": A primordial mesenchymal cell, also known as an hemohistioblast (hematohistioblast).[5]
References
- ^ University of Pavia Archived June 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (biography)
- ^ Treccani enciclopedia
- ^ Haematologica 1996; 81:101-104
- ^ "About Haematologica". Archived from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2012-04-12. Haematologica.org
- ^ Medilexicon (definition of eponym)
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