Kure Ken

Kure Ken ( Japanese 呉 建 ; born October 27, 1883 in Tōkyō ; died June 27, 1940 there) was a Japanese internist and neurologist.

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Kure Ken graduated from Tōkyō University in 1907 with a degree in medicine . From 1911 to 1913 he stayed for further training in Germany and Austria. In Berlin he studied with Claus Schilling and in Prague with Ewald Hering . In 1919 he became an assistant professor, changed professor at Kyūshū University in 1920 and finally became a professor at his alma mater in 1925.

Kure is known for his research on the vegetative nervous system . He discovered and determined the nature of the centrifugal, spinal parasympathetic system in the spinal cord. He also found that the nervous system controls the tension and nutrition of the controllable muscles and contributed to the knowledge of progressive muscular dystrophy .

In 1939 Kure was awarded the Imperial Prize (恩賜 賞. Onshi-shō) of the Academy of Sciences . He was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times in the 1930s . The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate. "The vegetative nervous system" (自立 神 経 系, Jiritsu shinkeikei) from 1934 is one of his writings.

The internist Okinaka Shigeo is one of Kur's students .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kure Ken . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 845.

Web links

• Biographies Kure Ken in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kure is the family name, Ken the first name.