Adolf Eugen Fick
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Early life and education
Fick began his work in the formal study of mathematics and physics before realising an aptitude for medicine. He then earned his doctorate in medicine from the University of Marburg in 1851. As a fresh medical graduate, he began his work as a prosector.[1] He died in Flanders at age 71.
Career
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Fick managed to double-publish his law of diffusion, as it applied equally to physiology and physics. His work led to the development of the direct Fick method for measuring cardiac output.
Anecdotal
Fick's nephew, Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, invented the contact lens.[2]
References
- ↑ The Virtual Laboratory: Fick, Adolf Eugen, accessed 5 February 2006
- ↑ The "Kontaktbrille" of Adolf Eugen Fick (1887) Template:Webarchive, accessed 20 April 2010
External links
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Science Quotes by Adolf Eugen Fick (todayinsci.com)
- Pages with script errors
- 1829 births
- 1901 deaths
- Alldeutscher Verband members
- German biophysicists
- German physiologists
- Physicians from Kassel
- People from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
- Marburg University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Würzburg
- Academic staff of the University of Zurich
- Recipients of the Cothenius Medal