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Apartment 302 "George Papanikolaou"

This renovated apartment in the center of Rhodes includes a bedroom with a double bed and a wardrobe, living room with a sofa bed, kitchen with a microwave, espresso machine and filter coffee, kettle, as well as a bathroom inside the apartment. It also has air conditioning, WIFI with optic fiber connection, smart TV, as well as washing machine and dryer in the main hallway. It also has balconies overlooking both the center of Rhodes and the sea. The apartment is located on the third floor and there is no elevator. Inside the apartments you will find a first aid kit with all necessary medical supplies.

Greek doctor and researcher with worldwide recognition. He is best known for his method of early diagnosis of cervical cancer, which bears his name (“Papanikolaou test” or “Pap test”) and has saved the lives of thousands of women.
In 1898, at the age of 15, he was enrolled at the Medical School of the University of Athens, from which he graduated in 1904 with honors. Restless in spirit, he studied philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer), was initiated into music and poetry, he learned French and German, and generally acquired a multifaceted education and inner cultivation. In 1907 he went to Germany for further training, despite the wish of his father, who wanted to practice medicine with him in Greece. Three years later he became a Doctor of Natural Sciences at the University of Munich with the thesis “On the conditions of sex differentiation of daphnids”. Soon after, he returned to Greece, where he married the Mykonian Maria-Andromachi Mavrogenous, descendant of the heroine of '21 Manto Mavrogenous and participated as a doctor in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913.
In 1913 he immigrated to the United States and initially engaged in non medical works together with his wife for a living. There he is discovered by the famous geneticist at that time T. Morgan, who had used in his work the findings of the doctoral thesis of the young Papanikolaou and mediated for his recruitment to the pathoanatomical laboratory of New York Hospital. From there he found himself in the anatomical laboratory of the famous Cornell University and devoted himself relentlessly to his research work. In 1917 he studied the vaginal smear of lower mammals and correlated its morphology with the hormonal cycle and the corresponding changes in the uterus and ovaries of animals. He then carried out clinical and laboratory studies on the diagnostic value of examining vaginal smear cells in humans, with his wife as his first “experimental volunteer”. His research was later extended to women at New York's “Women's Hospital” and formed the basis for the foundation of his method for the early diagnosis of cancer.
In 1928 he made his first announcement titled “New Diagnosis of Cancer”, which initially met with distrust by the US medical world. However, he was absolutely sure of the value of his method for the cytological diagnosis of uterine cancer and pursued his research with greater zeal. In his long scientific career he ascended all the ranks of the hierarchy at Cornell University, culminating in the title of Professor of Clinical Anatomy (1947-1957). In 1961 he settled in Miami, where he took over the organization of the Cancer Institute, which after his death on February 19, 1962, was renamed “Georgios Papanikolaou” Cancer Institute.

Although he was not awarded with the Nobel Prize, for which he had been nominated twice, he was awarded several American medical awards and posthumously the UN Prize. In 1932 he became the first honorary member of the Academy of Athens, and in 1949 the Medical School of the University of Athens named him an honorary doctorate. In 1954 he published “The Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology”, which constitutes the completion and sealing of his work. Today “Pap test” is used worldwide for the diagnosis of cervical cancer, precancerous dysplasia and other cytological diseases of the female reproductive system.