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Walter Rudolf Hess, M.D.

Affiliations: 
Physiological Institute Universität Zürich, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland 
Area:
diencephalon, hemodynamics, respiration
Website:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/hess-bio.html
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(1881 - 1973)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 was divided equally between Walter Rudolf Hess for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.
http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D14404.php
http://www.sanp.ch/docs/2008/2008-04/2008-04-006.pdf

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Justus Gaule post-doc 1912-1913 Universität Zürich
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Max Verworn research scientist 1915-1916 Universität Bonn

Children

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Fritz Erich Lehmann research assistant 1925 Universität Zürich (Evolution Tree)
Konrad Akert grad student Physiological Institute at Zurich
Marcel Monnier grad student 1932 Universität Zürich
Richard Jung post-doc Universität Zürich
Juan Jiménez Vargas post-doc 1942 (Physiology Academic Tree)
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AKERT K, HESS WR. (1962) [On the neurobiological bases of acute affective states of excitation]. Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift. 92: 1524-30
HESS WR, AKERT K. (1955) Experimental data on role of hypothalamus in mechanism of emotional behavior. A.M.a. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. 73: 127-9
HESS WR, AKERT K, McDONALD DA. (1952) Functions of the orbital gyri of cats. Brain : a Journal of Neurology. 75: 244-58
HESS WR, AKERT K. (1951) [Cortical representation of facial, oral and pharyngeal spheres in the cat]. Helvetica Physiologica Et Pharmacologica Acta. 9: 269-89
AKERT K, HESS WR, McDONALD DA. (1951) Autonomic and somatic activity evoked by stimulation of frontal cortex and thalamus in cats. (Film.). The Journal of Physiology. 113: 19p-20p
HESS WR, AKERT K, McDONALD DA. (1951) [Relation of the frontal lobes to the autonomic system]. Helvetica Physiologica Et Pharmacologica Acta. 9: 101-24
HESS WR, AKERT K. (1950) [Coordination of morphologic and physiologic investigation technics in brain research]. Folia Psychiatrica, Neurologica Et Neurochirurgica Neerlandica. 53: 268-74
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