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ON December 24, 1941, Prof. Carl Oppenheimer died in exile at The Hague, after a prolonged illness. The second son of a liberal rabbi, he was born on February 21, 1874, in Berlin. His elder brother Franz is the well-known economist. Carl Oppenheimer was educated in Berlin, where he obtained the Ph.D. in chemistry in 1894 and the M. D. in 1898, and also spent a short time at the University of Erlangen. He worked as assistant to the famous physiologist, R. Zunz, at the Land-wirtschaftliche Hochschule in Berlin and became a university teacher. He married in 1904 and had two sons. The elder, Chanan, is now at Rehovot Agricultural Research Station in Palestine, and the younger, Ernest, has joined the South African Army.
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ROMAN, W. Prof. Carl Oppenheimer. Nature 150, 569–570 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150569a0
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