Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin


Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was an Israeli physician and director of the Neurology Department of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Biography

Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was born in Białystok, Poland in 1902. He studied medicine in Germany and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934. In 1952, Heilprin composed the Hebrew Hippocratic Oath.

Awards

Heilprin was the first recipient of the Israel Prize for medicine, which was awarded to him in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize.