Robert Franz Schmidt
Robert Franz Schmidt (16 September 1932 in
Life
Schmidt completed his A-level examinations in 1953 and graduated from the Neusprachliches Gymnasium in
From 1956 until 1959, he was a
On 4 June 1964 he received his habilitation in physiology from the Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University. In 1966 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board at the 2nd Institute of Physiology at Heidelberg University and was given lifetime tenure.
On 28 January 1970 he was named as an adjunct professor (apl. Professor) by the Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University. From 1970 to 1971 he was a Visiting Research Associate Professor in the department of physiology,
From 1971 to 1982 Schmidt worked as professor and director of the Institute of Physiology at
Work
Research
From 1956 to 1960, Schmidt’s research was devoted to cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology. From 1960 to 1970, he studied the mechanisms and functions of presynaptic inhibition in the spinal cord, and since 1965 he has studied somatosympathetic interactions. Between 1970 and 1973, his additional areas of research interest included cerebellar physiology, and from 1972 to 1981, receptor characteristics and central connections in fine muscle afferents, and in 2012, the neurophysiology of nociception and pain, especially in relation to joint pain.
His primary research focus has been the characteristics of pain receptors and the processing of signals emanating from them in the spinal cord. Thus, for example, he discovered “sleeping pain receptors” which begin to function only when tissues become
Teaching
Schmidt co-edited and personally wrote a number of textbooks, the best known of which is his textbook, Physiologie des Menschen (Human Physiology). The book is currently in its 32nd edition (eds. Brandes R, Schmidt RF, Lang F), and is considered the standard textbook of physiology in German language.[2] Since 2007 Robert F. Schmidt had been taken on a leading role in the development of patient information and communication systems that can be readily understood by laypersons.[3]
Awards and Distinctions
- 1977 Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Doctorate of Science
- 1985/1986 Academy scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation
- 1985 Warner-Lambert Lectureship for a Distinguished Foreign Scientist, Society for Neuroscience
- 1987 Selection as a full member, Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature
- 1990 Hartmann-Müller Prize, Zürich
- 1991 Max Planck Research Prize (for outstanding international scientific collaboration, together with Akio Sato, Tokyo)
- 1993 Adrian-Zottermann Memorial Lecture, Glasgow, Int. Union Physiolog. Sciences
- 1994 German Pain Prize – German research award for pain research and pain therapy
- 1994 Selection as an honorary member of the Colombian Society for the Study of Pain, Bogota, Colombia
- 1996 Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia[4]
- 1996 Selection as an honorary member of the Mexican National Academy of Sciences, Mexico City, D.F.
- 1996 Honorary Member, Japan Physiological Society (Selection as an honorary member of the Japanese Physiological Society)[5]
- 1997-2008 Investigador Asociado, Instituto de Neurosciencias, Universidad Miguel Hernándes, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
- 1999 Alexander von Humboldt-J.C. Mutis Prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain [6]
- 2000 Selection as honorary member of the German Society for the Study of Pain, Section of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Hamburg, e.V.,
- 2000 German Federal Cross of MeritFirst Class, Orders of Merit of the German Federal Republic, Berlin
- 2002 Appointment as honorary member of the German Physiological Society (3 March)
- 2003 Honorary membership in the German Society for Pain Therapy e.V., Oberursel
- 2008 Honorary membership in the Intern. Assoc. for the Study of Pain [7]
Books by Robert F. Schmidt
Some Books of Robert F. Schmidt:
- Robert F. Schmidt: Grundriß der Neurophysiologie Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1972. eBook ISBN 978-3-642-96132-8
- Robert F. Schmidt and
- Robert F. Schmidt and H.-G. Schaible: Neuro- und Sinnesphysiologie, 5 ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 978-3-540-29491-7
- Robert F. Schmidt Physiologie kompakt Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 978-3-540-41346-2
- Ralf Brandes, Florian Lang and Robert Franz Schmidt (Hrsg.): Physiologie des Menschen, 32. ed. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2019. ISBN 978-3-662-56467-7.
External links
- Literature by and about Robert Franz Schmidt in the German National Library catalogue
- physiologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Notes
- ^ Traueranzeige Robert F. Schmidt, FAZ vom 16. September 2017
- ISBN 978-3-662-56468-4.
- ^ enpenet:about us, retrieved on 14 September 2012
- ^ juraforum.de, retrieved on 14 September 2012
- ^ Physiological Society of Japan retrieved on 14 September 2012
- ^ Uniprotokolle.de, retrieved on 14 September 2012
- ^ IASP, retrieved on 14 September 2012