Hans J. Müller-Eberhard

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Hans Joachim Müller-Eberhard (born May 5, 1927 in Magdeburg ; † March 3, 1998 ) was a German-American immunologist , known for research on the complement system .

Müller-Eberhard was the son of a successful businessman. During the Second World War he was an anti-aircraft helper and soldier in Hungary, where he was able to escape Soviet captivity at the end of the war. He went to school in the Harz Mountains ( Altenau , Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) and began studying medicine at the University of Göttingen in the late 1940s . There he turned to immunological research during a three-year stay with Henry G. Kunkel at Rockefeller University and examined gamma globulin . On his return he went to Gunnar Wallanius in Uppsala , where he turned to researching the complement system . After two years in Uppsala, where he also received his doctorate, he went back to Rockefeller University in Kunkel in 1959. After four years he went to the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla , where he became professor in 1972 and head of the immunology department. In 1978 he became Associate Director of Research there. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego . In 1988 he returned to Germany as director of the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg. Here he researched, among other things, Entamoeba histolytica and onchocerciasis . Shortly before his death from prostate cancer, he was supposed to set up a new institute at the University of Texas (Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases).

In 1974 he received a Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1987 the Robert Koch Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997). In 1974 he received the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award .

He was married three times and had two daughters from his first marriage. His third wife, Irma Gigli, was also an immunologist (and dermatologist).

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  1. ↑ Born as Müller, the father changed his family name after the Second World War in memory of his son Eberhard, who died on the Eastern Front.
  2. ^ Ford Burkhart: Hans Muller-Eberhard, 70, Immunologist, Dies . In: The New York Times , March 7, 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2012. 
  3. ↑ At Scripps, contrary to expectations, he did not succeed the director Frank J. Dixon , who had brought him to La Jolla at the time, and his professorship was downgraded
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SURNAME Müller-Eberhard, Hans J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Eberhard, Hans Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1998