Robert Remak
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 Robert Remak
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| Born | July 26, 1815 |
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| Died | August 29, 1865 |
| Nationality | Polish/German |
| Fields | embryology physiologist neurology |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Doctoral advisor | Johannes Muller |
| Known for | ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm |
Robert Remak (July 26, 1815 - August 29, 1865) was a Polish/German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia. Dr. Remak obtained his medical degree from Friedrich Wilhelm University in
Berlin in 1838 specializing in neurology.[1] He is best known for reducing Karl Ernst von Baer's four germ layers to three: the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. He also discovered unmyelinated nerve fibres and the nerve cells in the heart sometimes called Remak's ganglia. He studied under Johannes Muller at the University of Berlin.
Despite his accomplishments, because of his Jewish faith he was repeatedly denied full professor status until late in life, and even then was denied the usual benefits of the position.
His son Ernst Julius Remak was also a neurologist and his grandson was the mathematician Robert Remak who died in Auschwitz in 1942.
[edit] References
- ^ Kish, B. Forgotten Leaders in Modern Medicine. Valentin, Gruby, Remak, Auerbach. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 44, Issue 2, pg. 139-317, 1954.
- Schmiedebach, H P (1990), “[Robert Remak (1815-1865). A jewish physician and researcher between recognition and rejection]”, Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung 84 (17): 889-94, 1990, PMID:2251855, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2251855>
- Anderson, C T (1986), “Robert Remak and the multinucleated cell: eliminating a barrier to the acceptance of cell division.”, Bulletin of the history of medicine 60 (4): 523-43, 1986, PMID:3545332, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3545332>
- Seeliger, H P (1985), “The discovery of Achorion schoenleinii. Facts and stories (Johann Lucas Schoenlein and Robert Remak).”, Mykosen 28 (4): 161-82, 1985 Apr, PMID:3889638, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3889638>
- SCHWANN, J & SCHWANN, S (1963), “[CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE PATHOGEN OF FAVUS (TRICHOPHYTON SCHOENLEINI, ACHORION SCHOENLEINI) BY ROBERT REMAK.]”, Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis 9: 161-7, 1963, PMID:14059131, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14059131>
[edit] External links
- Biography
- Scientific biography
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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