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– 6 May 1988) was a pathologist, hepatologist and teacher. Together with

Dame Sheila Sherlock, he is

widely regarded as the founding father of hepatology. Popper was born to Carl and Emilie Popper in

Vienna on 24 November 1903. His father was a prominent physician and, as a

captain in the medical corps, was called to active army duty at the outbreak of

World War I. Hans Popper received a classical education at the Akademische

Gymnasium and followed his father's footsteps by entering

the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1922 and graduating in 1928. Popper

spent his five postgraduate years in anatomical pathology and established a

biochemical laboratory, which at the time was a new field of medical

research. He worked under the famous Viennese physician Professor Hans Eppinger, under whose influence he developed his interest

in hepatology. One of his main achievements of this period was the creatinine

clearance test to assess renal function. After Austria's Anschluß to the Third Reich in 1938, Popper (who was Jewish) narrowly

escaped arrest by boarding a flight to Rotterdam, where he then boarded

the SS New Amsterdam on her maiden voyage to New York. He received a research fellowship at the Cook

County Hospital in Chicago, and earned a PhD in pathology at the University of

Illinois. He held a succession of senior positions at this institution,

including Director of Pathology. He became Scientific Director for the Hektoen

Institute for Medical Research and Professor of Pathology at Northwestern

University School of Medicine. He was the driving force behind the founding of

the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, which

first met in 1948. In 1957, he was appointed pathologist-in-chief at the Mount Sinai Hospital in

New York, succeeding Paul Klemperer. There, he

was pivotal in the founding of the Mount Sinai School of

Medicine, becoming its first dean. In 1973, he became the Gustave L.

Levy Distinguished Service Professor and maintained this position until his

death.