Agamemnon Despopoulos

Agamemnon Despopoulos (born 1924 in New York City , New York ; missing since 1979 ) was an American physiologist .

Life

Agamemnon Despopoulos was Professor of Physiology at the University of New Mexico , Albuquerque until 1971 . From 1975 he then worked as a scientific advisor at Ciba-Geigy in Basel ( Switzerland ) and Summit New Jersey .

Despopoulos was considered a pioneer in the field of the transport of organic substances in the kidney. The “Pocket Atlas of Physiology”, which was first published in 1979 together with the German physiologist Stefan Silbernagl , has been published in eight German-language editions and has been translated into 13 languages.

On November 2, 1979, Agamemnon Despopoulos set sail with his wife Sarah Jones-Despopoulos on his sailing yacht "Cybele" in Bizerta ( Tunisia ) to cross the Atlantic . The couple has been missing since then.

In 1981 Rainer Greger , Florian Lang and Stefan Silbernagl dedicated their book "Renal Transport of Organic Substances", on which he was originally supposed to work, to Agamemnon Despopoulos.

Fonts (selection)

with Stefan Silbernagl : Pocket Atlas of Physiology. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1979, ISBN 3-13-567701-X .
- Color Atlas of Physiology. 5th, fully revised and expanded edition, ibid 2003.

Individual evidence

^ Foreword and table of contents by Rainer Greger, Florian Lang, Stefan Silbernagl: Renal Transport of Organic Substances. Springer, 1981, ISBN 978-3-642-68149-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-68147-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Despopoulos, Agamemnon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York

[1] Foreword and table of contents by Rainer Greger, Florian Lang, Stefan Silbernagl: Renal Transport of Organic Substances. Springer, 1981, ISBN 978-3-642-68149-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-68147-9 .