Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

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Gustav Victor Rudolf Born (born July 29, 1921 in Göttingen ; † April 16, 2018 ) was a British pharmacologist born in Germany .

Life

Gustav Born was the son of the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born and of Hedwig Born, geb. Ehrenberg. He went to school in Göttingen and, after his parents' emigration (1933), in Cambridge and Edinburgh . He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and received his PhD from Oxford University . He was 1960 to 1973 Vandervell Professor of Pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the University of London and 1973 to 1978 Sheild Professor of Pharmacology at Cambridge University and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College . From 1978 to 1986 he was Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London . From 1989 he was a research professor at the William Harvey Research Institute at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London.

Born researched in particular the pathophysiology of the blood circulation, in particular hemostasis , thrombosis and arteriogenesis . The so-called Born test , a method for measuring platelet function, is named after him.

In 1980/81 he was founding president of the British Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis . From 1979 to 1981 he was President of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis .

Born was visiting professor in Paris (Fondation de France, 1982 to 1984), Tübingen (1963), Brown University and Northwestern University . For many years he was a consultant for pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer AG , Merck KGaA , Boehringer Ingelheim and Imperial Chemical Industries . He was a member of the Club of Rome .

family

His daughter Georgina Born (* 1955), from her marriage to the doctor and psychoanalyst Ann Plowden-Wardlaw, is a professor of sociology, anthropology and music in Cambridge and a rock musician. In his second marriage, Gustav Born was married to the doctor Faith Born. He had five children.

Gustav Born wrote a book about his family history and (with Lorie Karnath) a children's book about science.

His memoirs were published in 2017 by the Max and Gustav Born Foundation for Education in Recklinghausen.

Awards and honors

  • 1972: Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1979: Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite
  • 1979: Albrecht von Haller Medal from the University of Göttingen
  • 1979: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
  • 1979: Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford
  • 1980: Paul Morawitz Prize
  • 1981: Honorary Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • 1984: Auenbrugger Medal from the University of Graz
  • 1987: Royal Medal of the Royal Society
  • 1990: Robert Pfleger Prize
  • 1994: Alexander von Humboldt Award
  • 2001: Ernst Jung Gold Medal in Medicine
  • 2002: Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
  • 2009: Wellcome Gold Medal from the British Pharmacological Society

Gustav Born received honorary doctorates from numerous universities, including the University of Bordeaux , Loyola University in Chicago, the University of Düsseldorf , the University of Edinburgh , the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , the University of London , the University of Munich , the University of Münster , the University of Paris and Brown University in Providence.

Gustav Born was a corresponding member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, a member of the Leopoldina (1971) and the Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

In 2010 the Gustav Born Center of Vascular Research at the University of Edinburgh and a professorship there were named after him.

literature

  • Gustav VR Born: The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-938016-05-1 . (English)
  • Gustav Viktor Rudolf Born: Memories, Reminiscences. Max and Gustav Born Foundation for Education, Recklinghausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-053715-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Gustav Born , accessed on April 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Gustav VR Born: The Born family in Göttingen and beyond. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-938016-05-1 .
  3. ↑ Where does the sun go when I sleep? Answers to the riddles of life for Amalie. Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-485-01075-8 .
  4. ↑ Prof Gustav Born (1921–2018) , accessed on June 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Gustav VR Born (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Born, Gustav Victor Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Born, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2018