Werner Jacobson

Werner Ulrich Jacobson (born January 4, 1906 in Berlin ; † January 15, 2000 ) was a German-British medic.

Life and activity

Jacobson was a son of Otto Jacobson and his wife Paula Margaret, geb. Masur. After attending school, he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his medical license in 1930.

From 1930 to 1933 Jacobson was an assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Bonn .

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Jacobson was dismissed from civil service because of his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. In the same year he emigrated to Great Britain , where he found a job at the Strangeways Research Institute at Cambridge University , where he worked until 1935.

In 1935 Jacobson was appointed a Halley Stewart Research Fellow at Cambridge, a position he held until 1980. In the 1940s he received a PhD degree from Cambridge University, followed by a Doctor of Science degree in 1960. From 1948 to 1949 he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and from 1969 to 1970 and again in 1972 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School.

After his emigration, Jacobson was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be successful if they were successful Invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following SS special commandos with special priority.

In 1970 Jacobson received the rank of Halley Stewart Professor in the Medical Research Department for Hematology at Cambridge University Clinical School. From 1981 he was Halley Stewart Professor at the Medical Research Department of Pediatrics.

Jacobson was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine , the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Jacobson's main research interests were anatomy , histology and embryology .

Since 2009 (?) The University of Cambridge has been awarding three scholarships (also) named after him every year: the Werner Jacobson Halley Stewart Scholarships.

family

Jacobson married Gertrude Elena Ebler on February 14, 1934.

Fonts

• About the development of the basal nasal cartilage in Talpa europaca and humans. 1928 (dissertation).

literature

• Men of Achievement. 15 edition. 1993, p. 373.

Web links

• Lives of the fellows: Werner Ulrich Jacobson on munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk; accessed on October 14, 2018