Herbert Pichler
Herbert Pichler (born September 25, 1921 in Mies, Seekirchen am Wallersee , Salzburg; † May 27, 2018 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician with a research focus on space medicine and an entrepreneur.
Life
Pichler spent his youth in Vienna , where he began to study medicine before the outbreak of World War II . At the beginning of the war he had to do the Reich Labor Service and later military service, where he was seriously wounded in 1941. He spent some stays in hospitals with the actor Heinz Conrads .
After the end of the war, Pichler finished his medical studies in Innsbruck. During the following years as a doctor in Switzerland he discovered in 1947 in a clinic in Zurich the penicillin -Allergie in children.
This was followed by specialist training in ear, nose and throat at the university clinic in Vienna . During his studies, he continued research by Nobel Prize winner Róbert Bárány on the organ of equilibrium , which also led him to issues of space travel . In the early 1960s , this research led to a collaboration with Wernher von Braun .
Pichler first became known to the public through his comments on the Gemini and Apollo missions on ORF . Under Helmut Zilk he got his own television series with the title Man in Space . His breakthrough came with the television broadcast of the moon landing in 1969 , where he reached a large part of the television audience with the otherwise rather dry topic. On July 20 and 21, 1969, it was in action for 28 hours and 28 minutes without a break and from then on it was nicknamed "Mondpichler". A colleague nickname was: Ear, NASA and Throat Doctor.
As early as 1949 he founded the pharmaceutical company Sigmapharm, which still exists today, together with the chemist Herbert Punzengruber .
Works
- The moon landing. The greatest adventure of mankind. Molden, Vienna 1969
Awards
- 1948 Swiss doctorate in medicine
Web links
- Entry on Herbert Pichler in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Biography on mondpichler.at
- Planetary_ballades (PDF; 953 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b lunar expert Herbert Pichler is dead . orf.at , May 29, 2018, accessed on May 29, 2018.
- ^ Note. As the first Austrian medical graduate after the war.
- ^ The "Apollo 11" mission as the first global television event. ORF , July 16, 2009, accessed on May 29, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pichler, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pichler, Herbert J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor and commentator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mies , Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2018 |
| Place of death | Vienna |