Rudolf Magnus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rudolf Magnus

Dutch pharmacologist and physiologist

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1873

Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1927

Profession: physician, university teacher, physiologist, pharmacologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Rudolf Magnus

  • Rudolf Magnus (2 September 1873, Brunswick – 25 July 1927, Pontresina) was a German pharmacologist and physiologist.
  • He studied medicine, specialising in pharmacology, in Heidelberg, where he became associate professor of pharmacology in 1904.
  • In 1908 he became the first professor of pharmacology in Utrecht, where he spent the rest of his working life.
  • Had he lived, he likely would have been awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on animal reflexes.
  • The authors of Nobel, the Man and his Prizes by H.Schück et al., edited by the Nobel Foundation (2nd ed.
  • Amsterdam, 1962, p.311) wrote of Magnus and his co-worker De Kleyn: ‘The examiner [1927] declared that the work done by Magnus and De Kleyn clearly deserved a prize, and the prospects for an award seemed most favourable when Magnus unexpectedly died.’ For his life and work see, Rudolf Magnus, Physiologist and Pharmacologist: A Biography (2002, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) by his son, Dr.Otto Magnus. Magnus had five children, Karl (1903-1989) lung specialist; Margarete (Gretl)(1905-1968)who worked as his secretary and translator; Dorothea who died aged 11; Erica (1909-1991) architect; and Otto (1913-2014) neurologist.
  • Magnus is most widely known for his work as a physiologist.
  • His book Körperstellung ("Posture")., a study of functional neurology, is his best known work.

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