Jakob Eugster (medic)

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Jakob Eugster (born August 20, 1891 in Hundwil , † February 17, 1974 in Muri near Bern ) was a Swiss doctor and professor of geomedicine and general hygiene. Eugster was awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize in 1935 for his work on endemic goiter .

Work and honors

Eugster studied medicine at the Universities of Geneva, Bern and Zurich and after his state examination worked as a country doctor in Roggwil BE . From 1937 he taught at the University of Zurich , initially as a private lecturer and from 1950 to 1959 as adjunct professor . In 1935 Eugster received the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his work on heredity and prophylaxis of endemic goiter . According to the experts, Eugster was able to show with his statistical studies that the endemic goiter is caused by environmental factors and is not caused by heredity. From 1933 Eugster, together with the later Nobel Prize winner Victor Franz Hess , dealt with cosmic rays and their biological effects.

Selection of works

  • On the hereditary issue of endemic goiter: Genetic studies on the causes of goiter , 1934–1936
  • Space radiation (cosmic radiation) and its biological effect , 1940 (with the assistance of Victor Franz Hess )
  • The mutagenic effects of cosmic rays (KS) in human tissue (epidermis) , 1963
  • Research into extraterrestrial life: the scientific basis of a cosmobiology , 1969

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Boschung: Jakob Eugster. Historical Lexicon of Switzerland HLS, September 5, 2007, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Previous winners. Marcel Benoist Foundation, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Urs Boschung: Jakob Eugster. Historical Lexicon of Switzerland HLS, September 5, 2007, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Eugster, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundwil
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1974
Place of death Muri near Bern