Robert Remak

Robert Remak

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birth_date = July 26 1815
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death_date = August 29 1865
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nationality = Polish/German
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field = embryology physiologist neurology
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alma_mater = University of Berlin
doctoral_advisor = Johannes Muller
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known_for = ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm
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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 inBerlin in 1838 specializing in neurology. [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.] 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.

References

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publication-date=1990
year=1990
title= [Robert Remak (1815-1865). A jewish physician and researcher between recognition and rejection]
volume=84
issue=17
periodical=Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung
pages=889-94

*Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3545332
last=Anderson
first=C T
publication-date=1986
year=1986
title=Robert Remak and the multinucleated cell: eliminating a barrier to the acceptance of cell division.
volume=60
issue=4
periodical=Bulletin of the history of medicine
pages=523-43

*Citation
id = PMID:3889638
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3889638
last=Seeliger
first=H P
publication-date=1985 Apr
year=1985
title=The discovery of Achorion schoenleinii. Facts and stories (Johann Lucas Schoenlein and Robert Remak).
volume=28
issue=4
periodical=Mykosen
pages=161-82

*Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14059131
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first2=S
publication-date=1963
year=1963
title= [CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE PATHOGEN OF FAVUS (TRICHOPHYTON SCHOENLEINI, ACHORION SCHOENLEINI) BY ROBERT REMAK.]
volume=9
issue=
periodical=Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis
pages=161-7

External links

* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1180.html Biography]
* [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/298/5602/2331 Scientific biography]
* [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per130 Short biography and bibliography] in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science


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