Robert Franz Schmidt
Robert Franz Schmidt ( born September 16, 1932 in Ludwigshafen, Germany) is a German physiologist and professor emeritus. He was from 1982 to 2000 Head of the Physiological Institute of the University of Würzburg.
Life
The Graduate in 1953 filed on Neusprachliches school in Frankenthal Schmidt. In the same year he began the study of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, which was completed in the winter semester 1958/59. His first MD thesis on April 22, 1959 in Heidelberg followed by the Medizinalassistentenzeit and surgical period from 1 May 1959 to 31 October 1960 the University of Heidelberg and Department of the Bethanien Hospital in Heidelberg a second Doctorate Ph.D. on 21 March 1963, the Australian National University in Canberra. The approval was issued on August 8, 1963 by the Ministry of Economy Baden -Württemberg, with effect on 14 May 1961.
From 1956 to 1959 he was a PhD student and research assistant at the Department of Physiology, University of Heidelberg. From 1960 to 1962 he was Research Scholar at Dept. of Physiology, Australian National Univ. Canberra, Australia and then to 1966 Research Assistant at the Institute of General Physiology, University of Heidelberg.
On June 4, 1964, his Habilitation in Physiology at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University. In 1966 he received an appointment to the Scientific Council at the Institute of Physiology II, University of Heidelberg and officials for life.
On January 28, 1970 was followed by an appointment as Adjunct Professor, Med Fak d University of Heidelberg. From 1970 to 1971 he was Visiting Research Associate Professor, at the Department of Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA. In 1979 he was chairman of the German Physiological Society.
From 1971 to 1982 Schmidt was a professor and director at the Department of Physiology, University of Kiel, and from 1982 to 2000 as Professor and Head of the Physiological Institute of the University of Würzburg. From 1 October 2000, he is Professor Emeritus. of Physiology, Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg. In 2001 he received an Honorary Professor by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tübingen.
Work
Science
From 1956 to 1960 he worked on electrophysiology and pharmacology of the heart, from 1960 to 1970 on mechanisms of presynaptic inhibition in the spinal cord and since 1965 with somatosympathischen interactions. Other issues from 1970 to 1973 Physiology of the cerebellum, 1972-1981 receptive properties and central interconnection fine muscle afferents and 2012 neurophysiology of nociception and pain, especially the joint pain.
He has mainly explored the properties of pain receptors and processing of the signals emanating from them in the spinal cord. He has discovered, for example, "sleeping pain receptors " that start to operate when tissue is inflamed. Also, the time course and the reasons for the increase in the sensitivity of pain receptors in inflamed tissue, such as in sunburn, it has cleared up.
Teaching
In addition to his research activities, Schmidt has a number of textbooks ( with ) edited and written himself, of which human physiology is the most famous. The book is the 31st edition before ( Ed. Schmidt RF, Lang F, Heckmann M), it is considered a standard work on physiology. Since 2007, Robert F. Schmidt is leading a committed amateur patients understandable information and communication system during development.