Hertha Meyer was a Brazilian biologist and director of the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
18 Facts About Hertha Meyer
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Hertha Meyer transferred to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to head the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, where a separate laboratory called Laboratorio de Ultraestrutura Celular Hertha Meyer was established in her name.
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Hertha Meyer developed a method for electron microscopy that was used in the structural description of protozoans and discoveries of cell organelles.
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Hertha Meyer studied a technical course in infectious diseases at the Lette-Verein training school in Berlin, completing the course in 1921.
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Hertha Meyer was denied higher education in the university due to antisemitic regulations and worked as a technician at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.
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Hertha Meyer made her first scientific publication with Fischer in 1928.
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Hertha Meyer managed to find a job of technician at the University of Turin.
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In Turin, Hertha Meyer was enrolled for a course in cytology of the nervous system and graduated under Giuseppe Levi, professor of human anatomy and pioneer of culturing cells.
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Antisemitic restrictions became stronger in Italy so that Hertha Meyer was compelled to emigrate in Brazil in 1937.
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Hertha Meyer used her skills in tissue culture to develop vaccines, especially that of yellow fever from which she came to be noticed by the scientific community.
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Hertha Meyer's focus was to set up a tissue culture laboratory, for which he was able to get financial support from Guilherme Guinle, a banker and a philanthropist, in 1940.
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Hertha Meyer came to learn that Meyer's works were exactly the kind he wanted.
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Hertha Meyer's salary was cut off for several months, but Filho fought to restore it.
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Hertha Meyer persuaded Filho to procure one at the Biophysics Institute, and was installed there in 1970 from funds provided by the World Health Organization.
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Hertha Meyer was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and received the Admiral Alavaro Alberto Award in 1974, Universidade Estacio de Sa award in 1980, and the Oswaldo Cruz Medal in 1982.
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Hertha Meyer set up Philips transmission electron microscopy obtained by Filho from the grants of the National Research Council, and with it she was one of the first scientists to effectively use electron microscopy for biological studies.
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Hertha Meyer knew Meyer's laboratory was the only place able to do the experiments.
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Hertha Meyer's experiment with Meyer was a quick success, both tumour cells did produce growth-promoting molecules.