10 Facts About Otto Hutter

Otto Fred Hutter was an Austrian-born British physiologist who was Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow.

Otto Hutter married Elisabeth Grunberg, a nurse, and worked as an estate agent.

Otto Hutter left Vienna in December 1938 as part of the Kindertransport which allowed Jewish children to escape the German annexation of Austria.

From 1942, after leaving school, Otto Hutter worked as a laboratory technician at the Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, Kent.

Otto Hutter studied physiology at Chelsea Polytechnic and chemistry at Birkbeck College at wartime evening classes.

Otto Hutter's work developed to address the permeation of potassium ions in muscle cells.

Otto Hutter was a lecturer in the Department of Physiology at University College, London until 1971 when he was appointed Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow.

In 2000 Otto Hutter set up an annual Holocaust memorial lecture in Glasgow.

Otto Hutter gave the 2018 lecture himself, entitled Exodus from Vienna, it told the story of what happened to his 37 classmates at the Chajes gymnasium.

Otto Hutter met Yvonne Brown, a nurse, whilst he was working in Beckenham.