Kurt von Neergaard
Kurt von Neergaard (born June 13, 1887 in Svalöv , southern Sweden , † November 7, 1947 in Locarno ) was a Swiss internist and university professor .
Life
From 1940, von Neergaard was Otto Veraguth's successor as associate professor for physical therapy and director of the Institute for Physical Therapy at the University of Zurich . In 1929 he determined that a higher pressure is necessary if one fills lungs with air instead of with aqueous solutions and assumed from this that the surface tension is responsible according to the Young-Laplace equation . Von Neergaard was the first to measure the surface tension of lung tissue and found it to be lower than that of blood serum or other tissues . In doing so, he de facto predicted the existence of the surfactant , although he himself did not deal further with lung mechanics.
literature
- Hermann Schmid: Kurt von Neergaard, 1887–1947: Professor of physical therapy (= Zurich medical-historical treatises. Vol. 182). Juris, Zurich 1986.
- Beat Rüttimann : Neergaard, Kurt von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 25 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt von Neergaard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Kurt von Neergaard in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Kurt von Neergaard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sylvia Wrobel: Bubbles, Babies and Biology: The Story of Surfactant. In: The FASEB Journal , Volume 18, No. 13, October 2004. doi : 10.1096 / fj.04-2077bkt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neergaard, Kurt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss internist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Svalöv , southern Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1947 |
| Place of death | Locarno |