Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer

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Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer (born March 30, 1931 in Saarbrücken ; † June 1, 2012 in Erlangen ) was a German human geneticist . He discovered Pfeiffer Syndrome in 1964.

Life

Pfeiffer studied medicine at the universities in Saarbrücken, Vienna , Frankfurt and Heidelberg . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Human Genetics and at the Children's Clinic at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . At the latter he completed his habilitation in pediatrics in 1965 . After almost eight years of teaching as a lecturer and adjunct professor at the Institute for Human Genetics, he was appointed to the newly created Chair for Human Genetics at the Medical University of Lübeck in 1973 .

In 1978 Pfeiffer went to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , where he took over the chair for human genetics and anthropology at the institute for human genetics and anthropology as the successor to Gerhard Koch . In April 1999 he retired . He was a founding member and president of the European Society for Genetic Counseling.

Pfeiffer has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . Furthermore, in 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rennes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituary notice , June 16, 2012, Erlanger Nachrichten
  2. ↑ RA PFEIFFER: Dominant hereditary Acrocephalosyndactyly. In: Journal of Pediatrics. Vol. 90, September 1964, pp. 301-320, PMID 14316612 .
  3. ↑ E. Harb, B. Kran: Pfeiffer syndrome: systemic and ocular implications. In: Optometry. Volume 76, Number 7, July 2005, pp. 352-362, doi : 10.1016 / j.optm.2005.05.002 , PMID 16038862 (review).
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rudolf Pfeiffer on his 70th birthday. In: presse.uni-erlangen.de. March 30, 2001, accessed June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Rudolf Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2012
Place of death gain