Read the bio below and try to give details on selmar aschheim 's: - known for - death date - birth date - name - occupation Bio: selmar aschheim -lrb- october 4 , 1878 -- 1965 -rrb- was a german gynecologist who was a native resident of berlin . in 1902 he received a doctorate of medicine in freiburg , and later became director of the laboratory of the '' universitats-frauenklinik '' at the berlin charite . in 1930 aschheim attained the chair of biological research in gynecology at the university of berlin . in 1933 he fled nazi germany and moved to paris , where he worked in medical research at the hopital beaujon . aschheim was a specialist concerning gynecological histology and hormone research . in 1928 with endocrinologist bernhard zondek -lrb- 1891-1966 -rrb- , he isolated the gonadotropic hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin -lrb- hcg -rrb- , which was discovered in the urine of pregnant women . from their research the '' aschheim-zondek test '' for pregnancy was created , which involved injection of a patient 's urine into an immature laboratory mouse . if the rodent displayed an estrous reaction , it represented a positive indication of pregnancy . the two doctors published the findings of the hormone in a treatise titled '' das hormon des hypophysenvorderlappens '' . at the time they believed that the gonadotrophin was produced by the anterior pituitary , however further research in the 1940s demonstrated that the placenta was responsible for the elaboration of the hormone .
- known for is rabbit test- death date is 1965- birth date is 1878- name is selmar aschheim- occupation is gynecologist