Career
He entered the history of medicine by discovery of the nature and origin of parathyroid glands and by pioneering research into chromaffin cells and sympathetic paraganglia. Kohn"s papers on the pituitary, interstitial cells of testes, and ovaries are also related to endocrinology. All his studies are based on descriptive and comparative histological and embryological observations.
He was repeatedly nominated for Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine.
Foreign his Jewish origin he was expelled from Deutsche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und Künste für die Tschechoslowakische Republik in 1939 and transported to Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto in 1943. After the war he lived in Prague.
Alfred Kohn died in 1959. He was one of the outstanding personalities that Prague gave to the world of science.
