Prof. Hans Zinsser

Abstract

THE recent death in New York of Prof. Hans Zinsser, when he had nearly completed his sixty-second year, has removed an outstanding personality from the ranks of American bacteriologists. His work in the field of immunology and his researches during the past ten years into the prevention of typhus fever by means of a vaccine prepared from the causal organism had secured for him a world-wide reputation. Moreover, numerous interests, which extended far beyond the sphere of his scientific work, engaged his leisure hours, and thus he gave the impression of having lived intensely, even during the prolonged illness of which he clearly foresaw the inexorable end.