John Hans Menkes (* 1928 in Vienna) is a Austrian writer and physician, who are considered as the first discoverer of the Menkes illness.

As 11-year old it fled 1939 with its family to America, in order to escape the Holocaust. Its father and grandfather were already the medical profession, therefore he followed the tradition and studied likewise medicine to become despite his intimate desire journalist. First he was to John Hopkins University, later changed on the Harvard University specialized in

Today Professor John H is. Menkes a neurologist and a director/conductor of the neurology at the Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, recognized world-wide. It did not lose its love for the literature therefore however, because it wrote plays and novels apart from the specializedscientific medical literature among other things and received some literary awards.

Admits became the neurologist however, as he 1962 the copper metabolic illness at the hair of the babies (Pilli Tori= serrated hair), designated after him, and prospering and growth disturbances diagnosed. Ten years later, 1972, thanks, likewise physician and 1962 with Professor John Menkes could working, the cause of the illness uncover. Thanks skin, thus exactly like the hair with children with the Menkes syndrome, serrated by Australian agrarian researchers the rare illness at sheep with, had presented gotten. The researchers solved the problem, by her the sheep copper given and the skin became again normal.

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