- Wilhelm Feldberg
Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg CBE FRS (
19 November 1900 -23 October 1993 ) was a German-Britishphysiologist andbiologist .Biography
Feldberg was born in
Hamburg to a wealthy middle classJewish family . He studiedmedicine atHeidelberg ,Munich andBerlin , graduating in 1925. In the same year he moved with his new wife to England and studied first underJohn Newport Langley at Cambridge and thenHenry Dale at Hampstead. In 1927 he returned to the Physiological Institute in Berlin but he was dismissed in 1933 during theNazi purge of Jewish scientists.He returned to England where he was Reader in Physiology,
Cambridge University , until 1949; Head of Physiology and Pharmacology Division, National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1949-65 (Honorary Head of Division, 1965-66); Head, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, National Institute for Medical Research, 1966-74. He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1947 and made aCommander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963.Feldberg's career was ended in 1990 when two animal rights activists gained access to his lab on the pretence of writing a biography and filming an educational video. Their claims were printed in "
The Independent ". An investigation by the Medical Research Council found that some breaches of regulations had occurred. While these may not have been Feldberg's fault, he was deemed responsible and hisHome Office Project Licence was revoked. One of the animal rights activists involved,Melody MacDonald , detailed her claims in a 1994 book "Caught in the Act:The Feldberg Investigation" (ISBN 1-897766-05-X).References
* Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society of London 1997 vol 43 pp 143-170, by
G.W. Bisset andT.V.P. Bliss
* Autobiobraphy - Fifty Years On: Looking back on some Developments in Neurohumoral Physiology, Feldberg, Wilhelm; Liverpool University Press, 1982, plExternal links
* [http://www.vernoncoleman.com/downloads/waems.htm 'The Life of Professor Feldberg'] (also known as "Why Animal Experiments Must Stop") by Dr.
Vernon Coleman .
* [http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Animal%20Testing/stop_2.htm The Lies They Tell: Feldberg] by the ALF
* [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1991-03-11/Writtens-1.html Home Department: Animal Experiments] questions and answers by the Home Office on Feldberg.
* [http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/others.html Feldberg] by Vivisection Absurd
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