Giorgio Pilleri
Giorgio E. Pilleri (also Georg ; born June 16, 1925 in Trieste ; † September 4, 2018 in Courgevaux ) was an Italian - Swiss neurologist .
Pilleri studied medicine from 1950 to 1952 at the University of Padua and from 1952 to 1955 at the University of Vienna . From 1955 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the Brain Anatomy Institute at the University of Bern , where he received his doctorate in 1958. From 1965 on, he succeeded Ernst Grünthal as head of the Brain Anatomy Institute. From 1970 he was professor of neuroanatomy and comparative neuropathology . Pilleri opened a dolphinarium in Bern in the late 1960s , but closed it again in 1975 when he noticed the dolphins were losing their communication skills. In 1990 Pilleri retired.
Pilleri was married from 1959 and had three children.
literature
- Giorgio Pilleri: chats from medical school. An autobiography (the years 1925 to 1995). Frieling, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8280-2842-5 .
- Who's who in the world. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago 1976, p. 558.
- Urs Wüthrich: “Chatting” from a brain researcher. In. Bern newspaper . March 5, 2011.
- Luc Ciompi : In memoriam Giorgio Pilleri (1925-2018). In: Swiss Medical Journal . Vol. 99 (2018), H. 47, pp. 1649-1650, DOI: 10.4414 / saez.2018.17350 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilleri, Giorgio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pilleri, Georg; Pilleri, Giorgio E .; Pilleri, Georg E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Swiss neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 2018 |
| Place of death | Courgevaux |