Alfred meat

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Alfred Fleisch (born September 29, 1892 in Dietikon , † May 19, 1973 in Mammern ; resident in Romanshorn ) was a Swiss physiologist .

Fleisch studied medicine at the University of Zurich , where he trained as a physiologist by Walter Rudolf Hess and became adjunct professor in 1926 . From 1926 to 1932 he was full professor at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu ) in Estonia , from 1932 to 1962 at the University of Lausanne . His pneumotachograph for measuring the breathing air speed is still used worldwide today.

In 1938 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Alfred Fleisch was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1953 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Nancy in 1960 .

His son Alfred Otto Fleisch (1926–2008) was an art collector, majority shareholder and former chief physician of the “Klinik Schloss Mammern”.

literature

  • Michel Dolivo : Alfred Fleisch: 1892–1973. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, 1973 (29), pp. 279–280.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margrith Pfister-Kübler: Alfred Otto Fleisch (1926–2008). Retrieved May 2, 2020 .