Rudi Harold Cormane (1925-1987): a fabulous researcher and clinician

Abstract

Rudi Harold Cormane was born on April 7, 1925 in Bandung, Indonesia, at that time the Dutch East Indies, to a plantation manager and his wife. His school education partly took place during wartime. When the Second World War reached the Dutch East Indies in 1942, he was imprisoned in one of the Japanese camps, where he received schooling from the older prisoners. Despite this unconventional education, it was possible for him to gain a coveted place at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands after the war [PE]. In 1946, he went by ship to The Netherlands after the war, and he started his studies inmedicine, graduating inMay 1953. During his medical school days, he worked as a so-called “student assistant” for a period of 5 months at the Laboratory forMedical Chemistry (head: Prof. Dr. H.L. Booy), University of Leiden and for a period of 5 months at the Department of Internal Medicine (head: Prof. Dr. A. Fauvert), Hopital Beaujon, Paris. After completing his basic medical studies, he took specialist training in internal diseases at the Department of Internal Medicine (head: Prof. Dr. J. Mulder and Prof. Dr. A. Querido) at the University of Leiden. In 1958, Cormanewas registered as a specialist and admitted to the staff of the department. In November of that year, he defended his thesis on “Candida albicans en de therapie met antibiotica” (Candida albicans and treatment with antibiotics). The