Hanns Langendorff

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Hanns Langendorff (born November 8, 1901 in Dresden ; † January 10, 1974 ) was a German radiologist and biologist who became known for his services in the field of radiation biology and radiation therapy . He was married to Margarethe Langendorff. In his honor, the German Society for Medical Physics, together with the Hanns Langendorff Foundation, annually awards the Hanns Langendorff Medal .

Life

Hanns Langendorff grew up in Dresden. He studied a. a. seven years in Jena the subject of biology, where he received an assistant position to the botanist and geneticist Otto Renner . He also began studying engineering, but dropped out.

In 1929 Hanns Langendorff worked for the physicist Richard Glocker and the surgeon and radiologist Otto Jüngling at the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart . In the research laboratory there, questions about the effects of ionizing radiation on biological objects were processed. After completing his habilitation in radiology at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Hanns Langendorff was appointed head of the Radiological Institute at the University of Freiburg on the recommendation of Ludwig Aschoff . In 1942 he received an associate's position and in 1959 he was appointed full professor of radiology. In collaboration with scientists from other disciplines, he founded the Heiligenberg Institute for Experimental Biology in Heiligenberg on Lake Constance.

Langendorff wrote more than 250 scientific papers in his more than forty years in the field of theoretical radiology. His investigations were carried out on different levels of the biological organization from the protein molecule to the mammalian organism and from the primary event of absorption in the molecular range to late damage. Langendorff was active in several commissions, such as the German Atomic Energy Commission, the German Standards Committee, Euratom and the Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. He was co-editor of the magazines "Atomkernenergie", the "International Journal of Radiation Biology", the "Röntgenblätter" and the magazine "Strahlentherapie". In addition to his research on radiation biology, he introduced radiation protection courses for doctors in Germany and was co-initiator of the film dosimetry for the monitoring of occupationally exposed persons . Hanns Langendorff was scientifically active until the last day of his life.

Honors

Hanns Langendorff became an honorary citizen of Tokyo in 1960 after a private audience with the Emperor of Japan . He received the coat of arms of the Medical Faculty of the University of Tokyo . In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the Philipps University in Marburg. He was an honorary member of the German Radiological Society, the German Society for Biophysics, since 1965 the Swiss Society for Radiation Biology, which later became the Swiss Society for Radiation Biology and Medical Physics, and the Japanese Radiological Society. In 1966 he was awarded the X-ray plaque from the city of Remscheid. In 1971 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anniversary brochure - Publication de jubilé - Anniversary publication 1964 - 2014, Swiss Society for Radiation Biology and Medical Physics (SGSMP, SSRMP, SSRFM), October 2014, ISBN 3 908 125 55 3
  2. ↑ www.roentgenmuseum.de, award winners archive
personal data
SURNAME Langendorff, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1974