Ernest Basil Verney

Ernest Basil Verney ( born August 22, 1894 in Cardiff, † August 19 1967 in Cambridge ) was a British pharmacologist and physiologist. He was 1926-1964 as a professor at University College London, the University of Cambridge and at the University of Melbourne, and has been dealing with the function of the kidney. In recognition of his research achievements, he was admitted, among other things, 1936 in the Royal Society and in 1967 was honored with the Schmiedeberg badge.

Life

Ernest Basil Verney was born in 1894 in Cardiff and graduated from the University of Cambridge first a science degree before he gained admission as a doctor after appropriate clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1918. After subsequent military service in the British Army until October 1919 he was first at St Bartholomew 's Hospital and the East London Hospital for Children operates. In the summer of 1921, he went to the Institute of Physiology of the University of London, where he worked as an assistant to Ernest Starling.

From 1924 he was an assistant at University College London Hospital. Two years later he was appointed professor of pharmacology at University College London. Ten years later he went to the University of Cambridge, where he first got a job as a reader and was from 1946, the first owner of the Sheild Professor of Pharmacology. He retired in 1961 in Cambridge and was then from 1961 to 1964 worked as a professor of physiology at the University of Melbourne, where he had previously in 1957 serves as a visiting professor.

Ernest Basil Verney was married in 1923, and the father of two sons and a daughter. He died in 1967 in Cambridge.

Scientific work

Ernest Basil Verney devoted himself throughout his career, especially the study of renal function, in particular the control of the water balance of the body and the mechanisms of kidney- related hypertension. Together with Ernest Starling, he was able to prove, among other things, the antidiuretic effects of the hormone vasopressin on the kidney. In addition, he studied at the beginning of his career with the reflexes of the cardiovascular system. The pharmacologist, who worked with him at times, included, among other things, by Franz Theodor Bridge, Heribert Konzett and Marthe Louise Vogt.

Awards

Ernest Basil Verney was inducted into the Royal Society in 1936 and 1947 held their Croonian Lecture. In 1957 he received the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. In addition, he was in 1967 appointed honorary member of the British Physiological Society and was awarded the Medal of the German Schmiedeberg Pharmacological Society.