Martin Henry Fischer

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Martin Henry Fischer , originally Martin Heinrich Fischer, (born November 10, 1879 in Kiel , Germany , † January 19, 1962 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an important German -American physiologist .

Life

He came to the USA with his family in 1885, was assistant professor in Berkeley with Jacques Loeb (where he made friends with Wolfgang Ostwald - the son of Wilhelm Ostwald - and published with him on the physical chemistry of fertilization) and in 1910 as professor in Cincinnati. He was a professor of physiology at the University of Cincinnati for forty years . Fischer published numerous medical books and articles. In the United States he is known for widely used aphorisms and quotations about the medical profession and science. They were collected and published as a book and had several editions. Fischer was trained on Baltasar Gracián , whose hand oracle he published in English translation.

In 1924 he received the Laura R. Leonhardt Prize of the Colloid Society , as he mainly dealt with colloid chemistry , especially in connection with physiology. He began as a histologist and from 1905 dealt with colloid chemistry. In particular, he investigated the question of how water binding and transport work in the body and showed that contrary to the opinion at the time, it was not highly dispersed particles (such as salts, sugar, small protein molecules via osmosis ) that played the decisive role, but large colloidally dissolved proteins. Fischer also published books on nephritis and edema and translated the book The World of Neglected Dimensions by his friend Wolfgang Ostwald into English.

The Laura R. Leonard Prize was also founded on the initiative of Fischer (and named after his mother-in-law Laura Rust Leonhardt).

He was a member of the Leopoldina . He was also a good painter.

literature

  • Howard D. Fabing: Martin Henry Fischer, 1879-1962, Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Volume 20, 1962, pp. 208-214
  • "Fischer, Martin." In: Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers. P. 301. OCLC 70175722
  • "Fischer, Martin Henry." In: Peter C. Merrill: German immigrant artists in America, a biographical dictionary. Pp. 61-62. OCLC 144617074
  • "Martin Fischer: biographical materials." In: Kremers Reference Files. OCLC 22548636
  • Who was who in America with world notables: volume IV, 1961-1968, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 311.
  • Obituary in Bulletin of the Cincinnati Historical Society, 1962

Fonts

  • Further contributions to the treatment of nephritis and related phenomena, Colloidchemische Beihefte, Steinkopff 1913
  • with George D. McLaughlin, Marion O. Hooker: Soaps and proteins; their colloid chemistry in theory and practice, Wiley 1921
  • Howard Fabing, Ray Marr (Eds.): Fischerisms, Verlag Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 3rd edition, 1944 (2nd edition 1937)

Quotes

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

- Martin H. Fischer
  • A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession
  • Whenever ideas fail, men invent words
  • Half of modern drugs could be thrown out the window, but then the birds might eat them

Web links

Wikiquote: Martin H. Fischer  - Quotes (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Weis: Everlasting Wisdom. Paragon Publishing, 2010, p. 53. ISBN 9781907611483
  2. ^ Klaus Beneke: Agnes Pockels, University of Kiel, 2005, pdf
  3. ↑ Martin H. Fischer on his 60th birthday , Kolloid-Zeitschrift, Volume 89, 1939, pp. 1–12
  4. ↑ Klaus Beneke, loc. cit.


personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Martin Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Martin Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1962
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio