Eduardo Braun-Menéndez
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez | |
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Punta Arenas, Chile | |
Died | January 16, 1959 | (aged 56)
Nationality | Argentine |
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez (January 16, 1903 – January 16, 1959) was a noted
Life and work
Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, he was a naturalized Argentine citizen from a very early age[clarification needed], and was raised in Buenos Aires.[1]
He studied at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the
On his return from England, he joined the prestigious team at the Institute of Physiology, with Luis Federico Leloir, Juan Fasciolo, Juan Muñoz, and Alberto Taquini to work for a few years on the mechanism of nephrogenic hypertension. He made the most important discovery in his career during this research, that of angiotensin, in 1939.[2]
At the Institute, Braun-Menéndez became a research leader in cardiovascular physiology in 1945, and served as a senior lecturer and teaching assistant in the same area until 1946. He directed the
Braun-Menéndez also helped to create the important scientific journal Ciencia y Investigación which published its first issue in 1945. It was directed by him until 1959, the year that he died. Another of his initiatives included the Acta Physiologica Latinoamericana, a publication written in multiple languages for the publication of the work of Latin American physiologists.
Dr. Braun-Menéndez died in a plane crash near Mar del Plata with his daughter on January 16, 1959. The accident was Austral Air Lines' first.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Homenaje: Dr. Eduardo Braún Menéndez (1903-1959) Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-04-27 at the Wayback Machine Hypertension (vol. 32, 1998). In Memoriam: Professor Alberto C. Taquini.