What is Robert Remak?
[[File:Robert Remak.jpg|thumb|Robert Remak]] '''Robert Remak''' (26 July 1815 – 29 August 1865) was a [[Germany|German]] [[embryologist]], [[physiologist]], and [[neurologist]], born in [[Posen]], [[Prussia]]. Remak obtained his medical degree from [[Humboldt-University of Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelm University]] in Berlin in 1838 specializing in neurology.<ref>Kish, B. 1954. Forgotten leaders in modern medicine: Valentin, Gruby, Remak, Auerbach. ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society''. '''44''', Issue 2, 139–317.</ref> He worked on [[embryology]], and also discovered unmyelinated nerve fibres and the nerve cells in the heart sometimes called [[Remak's ganglia]]. He studied under [[Johannes Muller]] at the University of Berlin. Remak discovered that the origin of cells was by the [[Cell division|division]] of pre-existing cells.<ref>Magner, Lois N. ''A history of the life sciences''. p185</ref> Despite his accomplishments, because of his [[Jewish]] faith he was repeatedly denied full professor status until late in life, and even then was denied the usual benefits of the position.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Silver|first=GA|date=January 1987|title=Virchow, the heroic model in medicine: health policy by accolade.|url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1646803&pageindex=5|journal=American Hournal of Public Health|volume=1|issue=77|pages=86|doi=10.2105/ajph.77.1.82|pmc=1646803|pmid=3538915|s2cid=1646803}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Remak, Robert}} [[Category:1815 births]] [[Category:1865 deaths]] [[Category:Embryologists]] [[Category:German developmental biologists]] [[Category:German doctors]] [[Category:Jewish German scientists]] [[Category:German neurologists]] [[Category:People from former German territories]] [[Category:People from Poznań]] [[Category:German physiologists]]