Rudolf Nissen (1896-1981) is best known for the surgical procedure termed fundoplication,
but his stature rests firmly on an illustrious, though turbulent career in surgery.
Born in 1896, the son of the surgeon Franz Nissen, he studied medicine at the Universities
of Munich, Marburg, and Breslau, and pathology at the University of Freiburg. Early
in his professional life, from 1921 to 1933, Nissen was a favored protégé of the distinguished
surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch in Munich and Berlin. During this period he concentrated
on thoracic surgery, performing lung lobectomy and pneumonectomy.
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