Robert Remak
- For the mathematician, Robert Remak (mathematician)
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| Born | 26 July 1815 Posen |
| Died | 29 August 1865 Bad Kissingen |
| Nationality | Polish/German |
| Fields | Embryology Physiology Neurology |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Doctoral advisor | Ferdinand Georg Frobenius Hermann Amandus Schwarz |
| Known for | Ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm |
Robert Remak (26 July 1815 – 29 August 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.
Remak discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells.[2]
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. Rudolf Virchow, one of the founders of modern cell theory, plagiarized the notion that all cells come from pre-existing cells from Remak.[3]
His son Ernst Julius Remak was also a neurologist and his grandson was the mathematician Robert Remak who died in Auschwitz in 1942.
References
- ↑ Kish, B. 1954. Forgotten leaders in modern medicine: Valentin, Gruby, Remak, Auerbach. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 44, Issue 2, 139–317.
- ↑ Magner, Lois N. A history of the life sciences. p185
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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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