Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)
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Viktor Hamburger [5] was an embryologist who focused on neural development [6]. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans Spemann [7] to the late 1980s at Washington University [8] resolving the role of nerve growth factor [9] in the life of neurons. Hamburger is noted for his systematic approach to science and a strict attention to detail. Throughout his life he maintained an interest in nature and the arts, believing both were important to his scientific work.
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متن کاملHamburger-Hamilton Staging Series (1951)
In 1951 Viktor Hamburger [4] and Howard Hamilton created an embryonic staging series from a combination of photographs and drawings from other researchers. The Hamburger?Hamilton stages are a sequence of images depicting 46 chronological stages in chick [5] development. The images begin with a fertilized egg [6] and end with a fully developed chick [5]. The Hamburger-Hamilton staging series was...
متن کامل"A Series of Normal Stages in the Development of the Chick Embryo" (1951), by Viktor Hamburger and Howard L. Hamilton
The developmental stages [4] of the chick [5] embryo were examined by Viktor Hamburger [6] and Howard L. Hamilton [7] in ?A Series of Normal Stages in the Development of the Chick Embryo,? published in the Journal of Morphology [8] in 1951. These stages were published to standardize the development of the chick [5] based on varying laboratory conditions and genetic differences. The stages Hambu...
متن کامل"The Effects of Wing Bud Extirpation on the Development of the Central Nervous System in Chick Embryos" (1934), by Viktor Hamburger
German embryologist Viktor Hamburger [4] came to the US in 1932 with a fellowship provided by the Rockefeller Foundation [5]. Hamburger started his research in Frank Rattray Lillie?s laboratory at the University of Chicago [6]. His two-year work on the development of the central nervous system [7] (CNS) in chick [8] embryos was crystallized in his 1934 paper, ?The Effects of Wing Bud Extirpatio...
متن کامل"Proliferation, Differentiation and Degeneration in the Spinal Ganglia of the Chick Embryo under Normal and Experimental Conditions" (1949), by Viktor Hamburger and Rita Levi-Montalcini
In this paper Viktor Hamburger [5] and Rita Levi-Montalcini [6] collaborated to examine the effects of limb transplantation [7] and explantation on neural development [8]. In 1947 Hamburger invited Levi-Montalcini to his lab at Washington University [9] in St. Louis to examine this question. Independently, each had previously arrived at opposing conclusions based on the same data. Hamburger con...
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