Georg Rajka (10 March 1925 – 16 March 2013) was a Norwegian of Hungarian origin dermatologist and legend of allergy and immunology.[1]
Rajka fled his native Hungary in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, where he had taken education as a dermatologist, following in the footsteps of his father. Originally settling in Sweden, he worked at Karolinska University Hospital - where he took his doctorate in 1964 - and the University Hospital of Umeå.
In 1971 he was appointed as a professor at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, Norway, where he remained until his retirement in 1995. He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Society of Dermatology and since 1989 a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] [3] [4] [5]
He resided at Haslum, later in Frogner, Oslo.[2] [3] He died in March 2013, shortly after his 88th birthday.[6]
In his memory and his pioneering work in the field of Atopic Dermatitis, the International Society of Atopic Dermatitis awards every two year a medal to a young investigator who has significantly contributed to this field.[7] [8]