1. Franz Alexander Nissl was a German psychiatrist and medical researcher.
19 Facts About Franz Nissl
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Theodor taught Latin in a Catholic school and wanted Franz Nissl to become a priest.
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However Franz Nissl entered the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to study medicine.
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Franz Nissl used alcohol as a fixative and developed a staining technique that allowed the demonstration of several new nerve-cell constituents.
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Franz Nissl won the prize, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the same topic in 1885.
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Franz Nissl accepted, and remained in that post from 1885 until 1888.
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In Frankfurt Franz Nissl became acquainted with Alois Alzheimer, and they collaborated over seven years.
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In 1895 Emil Kraepelin invited Franz Nissl to become assistant physician at the University of Heidelberg.
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The burden of teaching and administration, combined with poor research facilities, forced Franz Nissl to leave many scientific projects unfinished.
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In 1918 Kraepelin again invited Franz Nissl to accept a research position at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Psychiatrie in Munich.
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Franz Nissl never married, and his life revolved entirely around his work.
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One day, for a practical joke, Franz Nissl placed a row of empty beer bottles outside his laboratory and made sure that Kraepelin heard that he could be found lying under his desk, dead drunk.
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Franz Nissl was busy that morning and asked the student to come to his home at twelve.
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When Spatz came to the house at noon, Franz Nissl was not there, and the housekeeper finally opined that the Professor must have meant twelve midnight, so Spatz returned that night.
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Franz Nissl was at home then, but Spatz had to wait in the anteroom for half an hour until Franz Nissl had finished the piano sonata that he was playing.
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Franz Nissl was possibly the greatest neuropathologist of his day and a fine clinician who popularised the use of spinal puncture, which had been introduced by Heinrich Quincke.
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Franz Nissl examined the neural connections between the human cortex and thalamic nuclei; he was in the midst of this study at the time of his death.
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The Franz Nissl method is the staining of the cell body, and in particular endoplasmic reticulum.
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The Franz Nissl substance appears dark blue due to the staining of ribosomal RNA, giving the cytoplasm a mottled appearance.