Julius Wolff

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Julius Wolff (1836 – 1902 in Berlin) was a German surgeon who served as military surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War and some other minor campaigns.

Wolff proposed Wolff's Law that mechanical stress was responsible for determining the architecture of bone. Remodeling of bone occurs in response to physical stresses - or to the lack of them - in that bone is deposited in sites subjected to stress and is resorbed from sites where there is little stress.

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• Wollf’s law
• Mechanostat--a later draftof of Wolf's law

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Julius Wolff Institut, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Main research areas are the regeneration and biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system and the improvement of joint replacement.