Otto Hug

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Otto Hug (born July 26, 1913 in Marktzeuln ; † March 22, 1978 in Munich ) was a German radiation biologist and doctor .

Life

Otto Hug grew up in a doctor's house in Marktzeuln in Upper Franconia . He studied medicine with Franz Volhard at the University of Frankfurt and trained as a pathologist at the Charité in Berlin under Rössle and Hamperl .

During the Second World War he was a doctor at the front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After his escape from captivity, he took up scientific work at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main in 1949 under the direction of Boris Rajewsky . In 1953 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the biological effects of ultrasound . In 1956 he became professor of biology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . From 1957 to 1959 he worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna . In 1959 he moved to the University of Munich ; there he built the radiation biology institute of the university and the institute for biology of the society for radiation research ( Neuherberg ).

He was a member of important scientific bodies such as the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1970) and for fifteen years at the International Commission for Radiation Protection .

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Hug is considered one of the most important German radiation biologists. He dealt primarily with biophysics , radiation biology and clinical radiology and was a co-founder of the journal Radiation and Environmental Biophysics . His habilitation thesis on the biological effects of ultrasound was followed by extensive histopathological examinations, which led to the later work on radiation biology. Together with Boris Rajewsky, Hug carried out important studies on the pathogenesis of acute radiation effects and radiation carcinogenesis . With other colleagues from the Max Planck Institute, he carried out trend-setting kinetic analyzes of the effects of radiation. Work on fermentation systems expanded into a broad scientific program to study the time factor and recovery from radiation damage. The topics of the investigations with which he has been occupied up to the last few years ranged from the discovery of interesting radiation-induced immediate reactions to the revision of hit-theoretical approaches.

It was shaped by the literary influences in the Volhard family and in the George circle . During his imprisonment he dealt with the Russian culture and language and later translated poems by Akhmatova .

Reception and aftermath

The Otto Hug Radiation Institute in Munich was named after Otto Hug .

literature

  • Otto Hug: Peptic erosions in the jejunum , work from the Pathological Institute of the University of Berlin, Virchows Archive, Springer-Verlag 1939
  • Otto Hug: Cancer formation from a pial epidermoid , Virchows Archive, Springer-Verlag 1942
  • Boris Rajewsky / Karl Aurand / Otto Hug: Radiation dose and radiation effects. Boards and explanations, documents for radiation protection . Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1954
  • Otto Hug: Advances in radiation biology. Reports on radiobiological work in the Federal Republic of Germany in the years 1954–1961 . Gersbach Publishing House, Munich, 1963
  • AM Kellerer: Otto Hug † July 26, 1913–1922. 3. 1978 in: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, Volume 15, Number 4, 303-304, Springer-Verlag 1978 PMID 386414 . (CV and photo)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ AM Kellerer: Otto Hug † July 26, 1913–1922. 3. 1978 in: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, Volume 15, Number 4, 303-304, Springer-Verlag 1978
personal data
SURNAME Hug, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiation biologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Marketers
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1978
Place of death Munich