Karl Kirsch
Karl Kirsch (born August 14, 1938 in Mannheim ) is a German gravitational physiologist and university professor.
Life
Kirsch studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Zaringia and the Landsmannschaft Spandovia . In 1963 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Kirsch was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and from 1967 to 1968 research assistant at Duke University . From 1969 to 1974 he was an assistant professor at the Institute for Physiology at the Free University of Berlin (FU). In 1973 his habilitation in physiology and in 1974 became the Cherry professor at the Free University appointed . His main research areas include circulatory physiology, taking into account the physiology of the low-pressure system and the physiology of the salt-water balance. The first German experiments on cardiovascular research and studies on central venous pressure under the conditions of weightlessness also go back to Kirsch.
Publications
- with Hinrich Rahman: Human - Life - Gravity - Cosmos: Perspectives on Bioscientific Space Research in Germany . G. Heimbach, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-935380-03-8
- with H.-C. Gunga : and M. Steinach: Space Medicine and Biology. In: W. Ley, K. Wittmann, L. Hallmann (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik. Cape. 7.6, pp. 575-588, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-446-41185-2
Web links
- International Society for Gravitational Physiology honors Prof. Dr. Karl Kirsch with her highest prize Information Service Wissenschaft
Individual evidence
- ↑ News magazine of the German Aerospace Center (PDF; 10.4 MB). No. 125, March 2010, p. 5.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kirsch, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirsch, Karl A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gravitational physiologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |