Ulrich Cameron Luft
Ulrich Cameron Luft (born April 25, 1910 in Berlin , † November 23, 1991 in Albuquerque ) was a German-American physiologist and university professor .
Life
Ulrich Luft was the son of a German teacher and a Scottish mother. His younger brother was the theater critic Friedrich Luft , his son is the physician Friedrich C. Luft . He grew up in the Kaiserallee 74 (today: Bundesallee ) in Friedenau and attended the nearby Friedenau high school on Maybachplatz (today: Perelsplatz ). After finishing his schooling completed air 1929 to 1935 at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich and Berlin a study of medicine . After a year as an assistant doctor, Luft received his doctorate in 1937. med. in Berlin, the title of his dissertation was irreversible organ changes due to hypoxemia in negative pressure . Luft then took part in the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1937 and 1938 as a scientist and attending physician .
Luft then returned to the German Reich and carried out teaching assignments at the University of Berlin. In addition, from 1938 he worked under Hubertus Strughold at the Aviation Medical Research Institute of the Reich Aviation Minister - Altitude Research Department. Luft did his three-month military service in 1939. In 1941 he married his colleague Alice Hentzelt. Luft completed his habilitation in Berlin during the Second World War in 1942 with the unpublished paper on air force research “Die Höhenanituation”. Luft took part in the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on February 26 and 27, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp .
At the end of the war, the Aviation Medical Institute was closed and Luft settled as a doctor. After the Berlin University reopened, Luft received the offer to head the Physiological Department there. In April 1947, however, he accepted Harry Armstrong's offer from the US Air Force to emigrate to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip . There he worked at the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base until 1954 . From 1954 to 1980 he headed the Physiological Institute of the Lovelace Clinic for Medical Education and Research of William Randolph Lovelace II in Albuquerque and taught in personal union from 1959 to his retirement in 1980 as a physiology professor at the University of New Mexico .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Cameron Luft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ulrich Cameron Luft Papers (PDF; 183 kB) at Online Archive of California
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Cameron Luft Papers at Online Archive of California, p. 2f
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 384
- ↑ See entry at DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Air, Ulrich Cameron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1991 |
| Place of death | Albuquerque |