Robert Remak
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Robert Remak (26 July 1815 – 29 August 1865) was an embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia, who discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells.[1] as well as several other key discoveries.
According to historian Paul Weindling, Rudolf Virchow, one of the founders of modern cell theory, plagiarized Remak's notion that all cells come from pre-existing cells.[2] Remak had concluded this after observing red blood cells from chicken embryos in various stages of division. He then confirmed that the phenomenon existed in the cell of every frog's egg immediately after fertilization, proving that this was a universal phenomenon and finally explaining the reason for the results of tests by Louis Pasteur which had previously proved that there exists no spontaneous generation of life.[3]
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References
- ^ Magner, Lois N. A history of the life sciences, p185
- PMID 11611569. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- PMID 3538915.
- ^ Kish, B. 1944. Forgotten leaders in modern medicine: Valentin, Gruby, Remak, Auerbach. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 44, Issue 2, 139–317.
- ^ "Remak finally obtained a lectureship at the University of Berlin, becoming the first American to teach there. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1859 in belated, though quite inadequate, recognition of his extraordinary body of neurological and embryological research. ", Robert Remak, Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ The Cell - The Hidden Kingdom, BBC Documentary [54:39]
- Schmiedebach, H P (1990), "Robert Remak (1815–1865). A Jewish physician and researcher between recognition and rejection", Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung, vol. 84, no. 17, pp. 889–94, PMID 2251855
- Anderson, C T (1986), "Robert Remak and the multinucleated cell: eliminating a barrier to the acceptance of cell division.", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 523–43, PMID 3545332
- Seeliger, H P (1985), "The discovery of Achorion schoenleinii. Facts and stories (Johann Lucas Schoenlein and Robert Remak).", Mykosen, vol. 28, no. 4 (published April 1985), pp. 161–82, PMID 3889638
- Schwann, J; Schwann, S (1963), "Circimstances of the Discovery of the Pathogen of Favus (Trichophyton Schoenleini, Achorion Schoenleini) by Robert Remark", Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis, vol. 9, pp. 161–7, PMID 14059131
External links
- Biography
- Scientific biography
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science