Viktor Hamburger
Viktor Hamburger | |
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Born | Landeshut, Silesia | July 9, 1900
Died | June 12, 2001 | (aged 100)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
Known for | Nerve growth factor |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Embryology |
Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Spemann |
Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001)
Early life
Hamburger was born on
July 9, 1900 inCareer
Hamburger was doing post-doctoral research at the
Hamburger began to work at Washington University in St. Louis in 1935; he retired from his professor position in 1969 and continued researching until the 1980s.[5][2]
In 1947 Hamburger recognized and brought to the United States a post-doctoral fellow named Rita Levi-Montalcini. Their subsequent collaboration resulted in the discovery of nerve growth factor. This work was continued by Dr. Levi-Montalcini and Dr. Cohen to which they would be awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Hamburger was excluded as a recipient for the Nobel Prize, although the NGF work by Dr. Levi-Montalcini and Dr. Cohen was based upon work by Dr. Hamburger and was carried out in his laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Levi-Montalcini also publicly marginalized Hamburger’s role in the NGF work.[2][3]
In 1951 Hamburger and Howard Hamilton in 1951 published the
In the 1960s, Hamburger did embryological work that established that chick movements in embryo were spontaneous patterns, a finding that contradicted contemporary assertions of
Hamburger later revisited nerve growth factor, demonstrating that it was required for the maintenance of neural cells.[7]
Selected awards
- 1953 – Inducted into National Academy of Sciences
- 1976 – Honorary doctorate, Washington University in St. Louis
- 1978 – Wakeman Award for Research in the Neurosciences
- 1981 – Ross Harrison Prize from the International Society of Developmental Biologists, shared with Donald Brown
- 1983 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University with Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 1984 – Honorary doctorate from Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Uppsala University[8]
- 1985 – Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience
- 1989 – National Medal of Science
- 1990 – Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society
- 2000 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Developmental Biology
References
- Notes
- S2CID 40956799. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g Garland E. Allen. Viktor Hamburger, 1900–2001. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, 2015, 39 pp.
- ^ PMID 11283321.
- ^
Hamburger, Viktor (1996). "Viktor Hamburger". In Squire, Larry R. (ed.). The history of neuroscience in autobiography. Washington DC: Society for Neuroscience. p. 223. ISBN 0-916110-51-6. Retrieved 2013-08-05.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
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- ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden".
- Bibliography
- Allen, Garland. "Viktor Hamburger, 1900–2001; a biographical memoir" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- Hamburger, Viktor (1996). "Viktor Hamburger". In Squire, Larry R. (ed.). The history of neuroscience in autobiography. Washington DC: Society for Neuroscience. pp. 222‒250. ISBN 0-916110-51-6. Retrieved 2013-05-26.