Hugo Kronecker
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(Karl) Hugo Kronecker (1839, Liegnitz, Silesia-1914) was a German-born Swiss physiologist.
He studied medicine in Berlin, Heidelberg and Pisa, and received the M.D. degree in Berlin. From 1868, he worked in the Leipzig Physiological Institute with Carl Ludwig. He received habilitation (permission to lecture) in 1872 with a thesis on fatigue and recovery of skeletal muscle.
In 1878, he moved to Berlin to become department director in the Physiological Institute. In 1885, he was appointed chairman of Physiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. There he built a new Institute of Physiology.
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- Photo, biography, and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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