Eberhard Dodt

Eberhard Dodt (born February 22, 1923 in Bielefeld ; † November 25, 1994 ) was a German physician who dealt with the physiology of vision.

Life

Dodt studied at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Erlangen and Marburg and received his doctorate in medicine in Freiburg in 1950. In 1954 he became a private lecturer in Freiburg and then an adjunct professor at the University of Giessen. From 1966 he headed a newly established second physiological department at the WG Kerckhoff Institute (later the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) in Bad Nauheim. In 1974 he became one of the directors of the institute when the institute was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research .

He dealt with comparative electrophysiology of the retina and the visual pathway and also with biological clocks (circadian rhythms). Among other things, he discovered the sensitivity of the pineal gland to light stimuli in frogs, fish and lizards.

In 1980 he received the Ernst Jung Prize . He was a member of the Leopoldina (since 1987) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America . A prize from the Clinical Society for Electrophysiology of Vision is named after him.

Publications

• Results of flicker electroretinography , Experientia, Volume 10, 1954, p. 330 (Habilitation)
• Investigations on the syndrome of energetic-dynamic heart failure , 1950 (dissertation, University of Freiburg)
• Editor with KE Schrader: The normal and disturbed pupillary movement , Symposium of the German Ophthalmological Society, Bad Nauheim 1972, Müuenchen, JF Bergmann 1973
• Editor with Jerome Pearlman: XI. Boarding school Society for Clinical Electroretinography Symposium , The Hague 1974

literature

• Wolfgang Schaper : Professor Dr. med. Eberhard Dodt in memory. In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt , ISSN  0171-9661 , Vol. 56, 1995, No. 3, p. 77

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to Who's Who in Germany , 1972, death date according to the Leopoldina membership directory.