Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born ( born July 29, 1921 in Germany ) is a British pharmacologist.
Gustav Born is the son of the physicist Max Born and went to Göttingen and after the emigration of his parents (1933 ) by Cambridge and Edinburgh to school. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and received his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He was from 1960 to 1973 Vandervell Professor of Pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the University of London and from 1973 to 1978 Sheild Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. 1978 to 1986 he was professor of pharmacology at King's College London. From 1989 he was a research professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London.
He has been a visiting professor in Paris ( Fondation de France 1982-84 ), Tübingen (1963 ), at Brown University and Northwestern University. He was long-time advisor to pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer, Merck and Boehringer ( Ingelheim) and ICI.
He explored in particular the pathophysiology of blood circulation, especially to hemostasis, thrombosis and arteriogenesis.
In 2001 he received the Ernst Jung Gold Medal in Medicine. In 1972 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1972 ), the Royal Medal he was awarded in 1987 and 1979 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2002. In 1994 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Award, the 1990 Robert - Pfleger- Price, 1980 Paul Morawitz Prize and in 1984 the Auenbrugger Medal of the University of Graz. He is much honorary doctorates (University of Bordeaux, University of Edinburgh, lions, Loyola University, University of Münster, Brown University, University of Dusseldorf, Munich University, University of London, University of Paris ), Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford, he received the 1979 Albert -von- Haller- medal of the University of Göttingen. In 2009 he received the Wellcome Gold Medal of the British Pharmacological Society. In 1981 he was made an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, member of the Leopoldina ( 1971) and the Rhenish- Westphalian Academy of Sciences. 1980/81 he was the founding president of the British Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis and 1979 to 1981 he was president of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He is a member of the Club of Rome. In 1979 he became a Knight of the Ordre National du Mérite.
His daughter Georgina Born ( born 1955 ) from his marriage to the doctor and psychoanalyst Ann Plowden - Wardlaw is Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at Cambridge and rock musician. In his second marriage he is married to physician Faith Born. He has five children.
He wrote a book about his family history and a children's book about science with Lorie Karnath.
2010 Gustav Born Centre of Vascular Research was named to the University of Edinburgh and a professor there for him.