Nationality German Known for Nerve growth factor Name Viktor Hamburger | Role Author Siblings Rudolf Hamburger | |
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Books The heritage of experimental embryology, A manual of experimental embryology Similar People Rita Levi‑Montalcini, Stanley Cohen, Ursula Kuczynski | ||
Alma mater University of Freiburg | ||
History of neuroscience viktor hamburger
Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001) was a German professor and embryologist. In 1951 he co-authored the Hamburger-Hamilton stages. Hamburger lectured, among others, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who identified nerve growth factor along with Hamburger when they collaborated. Hamburger began to work at Washington University in St. Louis in 1935; he retired from his professor position in 1969 and continued researching until the 1980s.
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History of neuroscience viktor hamburger
Early life
Hamburger was born on (1900-07-09)July 9, 1900 in Landeshut, Silesia, Germany to Max Hamburger and Else Gradenwitz.
Career
In the 1960s, Hamburger did embryological work that established that chick movements in embryo were spontaneous patterns, a finding that contradicted contemporary assertions of behavioral psychologists.
Hamburger later revisited nerve growth factor, demonstrating that it was required for the maintenance of neural cells.