Semmelweiss, Ignaz Philipp

Semmelweiss, Ignaz Philipp

S05-849080 (zĕm′ĕl-vīs″) Hungarian physician, 1818–1865, the discoverer of the mode of transmission of childbed fever (puerperal sepsis) in the 19th century. Semmelweiss is a seminal figure in the history of infection control.