CLASS ICAL PERSPECT IVES Founder of cardiac cellular electrophysiology: Honouring
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What are the requirements to create a breakthrough in science? The late Silvio Weidmann, who sadly passed away on 11 July 2005, used to contemplate: ‘All it takes is the right person, at the right place, at the right time’. These three circumstances certainly came together when Silvio Weidmann himself spent a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley in Cambridge from 1948 to 1950, during the enthralling times of innovation and discovery of the basics of electrophysiology in squid axon. Inspired by this experience, and after returning to the Department of Physiology in Bern, Silvio continued his seminal studies on cardiac muscle. In the following years, much of Weidmann’s research efforts focused on the understanding of the electrical phenomena and membrane currents of cardiac muscle, including the propagation of electrical signals across the entire heart. Many of his influential publications have had a long-lasting and far-reaching impact and still stand out as monuments. Several of them initiating entire research fields on their own, sprouting from pure cellular cardiac electrophysiology. Quite often these
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تاریخ انتشار 2005