Medical University of Innsbruck

The Medical University of Innsbruck (German: Medizinische Universität Innsbruck) is a university in Innsbruck, Austria. It used to be one of the four historical faculties of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, but it became an independent (by itself) university in 2004.

 History 
The medical tradition dates back long before the university began. The first hospital began in the silver-mining city of Schwaz nearby in 1307. Because people grew as years went by, a medical faculty was added to the university, begun in 1669 by Emperor Leopold I, making it the first of its kind in the Alpine region.

 Nobel Prize laureates 
 Fritz Pregl, 1923 (chemistry - for his contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis) 
 Adolf Windhaus, 1928 (chemistry - for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins)
 Hans Fischer, 1930 (chemistry - for the synthesis of haemin)

 Other websites 

 Study in Austria: A Guide 

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