The Berlin Medical Association has awarded the diploma of Honorary Membership, one of the rarest distinctions in the gift of the Association, to Professor Hans Kohn, who is a Jew and a prominent member of the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith.
Professor Goldscheider, the President of the Association, in handing the diploma to Professor Kohn, said that it was an honour conferred only rarely on medical men of the highest achievement.
Professor Kohn was born in Bavaria, where he made his name by the discovery of the "Kohn lung canals".
Since coming to Berlin he has practised as an internist. He is Professor at the Third Medical University Clinic in Berlin and he is on the staff of the Hospital of the Berlin Jewish and he is on the staff of the Hospital of the Berlin Jewish Community. He enjoys an international reputation as an authority on heart diseases.
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