Heribert Reitböck
Heribert JP Reitböck (born June 22, 1933 in Ried im Innkreis ; † April 3, 2014 in Lohra Willershausen near Marburg ) was an Austrian neuroscientist .
In 1978 he was appointed university professor and successor to Hans Wolter at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he set up the Applied Physics - Neurophysics working group , where he further perfected multi-electrode technology so that object-related synchronizations in the visual system could actually be demonstrated in 1989. Based on this principle, he developed models of high-performance technical visual systems. Flexible coupling through synchronization has meanwhile become an important branch of brain research around the world in order to better understand neuronal mechanisms of associative processes. Reitböck was considered a pioneer.
Career
Reitböck studied communications engineering at the Technical University in Vienna and graduated in 1958 as a qualified engineer . He studied physics and biophysics , he studied at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he in his doctoral thesis of Boris Rajewsky at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics was supervised and 1963 as Dr. phil. nat. PhD . In 1964 he received his doctorate in Vienna as Dr. techn. at the Technical University of Vienna . He developed a high-temperature Rubin molecular amplifier and a sensitive electron spin resonance - spectrometer and examined the role of free (also radiation-induced) radicals in biological substances.
With this competence he was an advisor to the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1965 to 1969 . In 1966 the company Westinghouse Electric brought him to Pittsburgh , where he was co-opted to the medical faculty and learned to solve technical pattern recognition problems on the brain of primates . To this end, he developed the registration technology, which is now used worldwide, with which one can observe many neurons at the same time. In 1978 he was appointed to Marburg . Reitböck was the author of around one hundred scientific publications, book and conference contributions and was the holder of six US patents.
The Physics Department of the Philipps University of Marburg honored Reitböck with an obituary. Gregor Witte He was buried in his birthplace in Ried im Innkreis in Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Eckhorn : Flexible couplings in the brain. For the 70th birthday of the neurophysicist Professor Heribert JP Reitböck. In: Marburger Uni-Journal. No. 15 from April 2003, p. 62 Flexible couplings in the brain
- ↑ curriculum and qualifications Professor Riding Boeck
- ↑ Obituary Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Dr. techn. Heribert JP Reitböck (archive link)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reitböck, Heribert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reitböck, Heribert JP |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ried im Innkreis |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd April 2014 |
| Place of death | Lohra Willershausen |