Gerhard Schubert (doctor)

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Gerhard Schubert (born January 5, 1907 in Trebnitz / Silesia ; † February 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German gynecologist , obstetrician , surgeon , human geneticist and radiation biologist .

Life

Gravestone Gerhard Schubert, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Schubert studied medicine at the Universities of Breslau and Vienna . He then began training in Dresden at the surgical clinic of the Dresden-Johannstadt City Hospital and at the local pathological institute. He then moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch , where he worked with the radiation geneticist Dimofeef-Ressovsky on problems related to mutation research, selective fertilization and radiation-induced genetic damage. In 1939, Gerhard Schubert moved to the gynecological clinic at the Georg-August University in Göttingen under Heinrich Martius . He was appointed senior physician and private lecturer .

In World War II, Schubert was from 1943 to 1944 in the medical as a staff physician at the local hospital North Station Paris used. At the same time, he carried out independent research at the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry at the Collège de France with Frédéric Joliot-Curie .

After the war, Schubert combined his findings in nuclear physics with their applications in the medical field in Göttingen . As early as 1945 he received a call to the women's clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . Here he dealt with problems of radiation protection , radiation resistance , the influence of ionizing radiation and chemical substances on the treatment of cancer . One of his students was Gerhard Bettendorf .

Gerhard Schubert wrote over 100 publications. In 1954 and 1959 he was chairman of the North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. In 1960 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He died in 1964 at the age of 57 and rests in the Ohlsdorf cemetery at Planquadrat P 10 (north of Cordesallee , west of Cordesbrunnen ).

Fonts

  • Gerhard Schubert, Artur Pickhan: hereditary damage. Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1938
  • Gerhard Schubert: Nuclear Physics and Medicine. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1947
  • Hans Marquardt, Gerhard Schubert: The radiation hazard to humans through atomic energy. Problems of radiation biology in the technical age. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1959
  • Josef Becker, Gerhard Schubert (Ed.): The supervolt therapy: Basics, methods and results of therapy with high-energy particles and ultra-hard rays. Thieme, Stuttgart 1961

literature

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šubert, Gerchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist, obstetrician, surgeon, geneticist and radiation biologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebnitz / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1964
Place of death Hamburg