Ariane Dröscher, Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Bozen – Bolzano, Italy
Published online: May 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002463
Remak (1815–1865), a Polish-Prussian physician who made pioneering, though mostly neglected, discoveries in the fields of neurohistology, embryology, cell division, cellular pathology and electrotherapy.
Keywords: germ layer; axon; cancer; cell division; electrotherapy
| Further Reading | |
| Anderson CT (1986) Robert Remak and the multinucleated cell: eliminating a barrier to the acceptance of cell division. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 60: 523–543. | |
| book Duchesneau F (1987) Genèse de la théorie cellulaire. Montreal, Paris: Bellarmin. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Lagunoff D (2002) A Polish, Jewish scientist in 19th-century Prussia. Science 298: 2331. | |
| Mendelsohn JA (2003) Lives of the Cell. Journal of the History of Biology 36: 1–37. | |
| other Remak R (1844) Neurologische Erläuterungen. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 463–472. | |
| book Remak R (1850–1855) Untersuchungen über die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere, 3 vols. Berlin: G. Reimer. | |
| other Remak R (1852) Ueber extracelluläre Entstehung thierischer Zellen und über Vermehrung derselben durch Theilung. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 47–57. | |
| book Remak R (1858) Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten. Berlin: A. Hirschwald. | |
| book Schmiedebach HP (1995) Robert Remak (1815–1865) Ein jüdischer Arzt im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. | |
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