Rolf Niedergerke studied medicine throughout the Second World War, and obtained his MD degree as the war ended in 1945.
11 Facts About Rolf Niedergerke
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Rolf Niedergerke became associated with Huxley, whom he joined at Cambridge University.
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Rolf Niedergerke was born and educated in Mulheim an der Ruhr.
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Rolf Niedergerke could manage to continue at Charles University in Prague in Czechoslovakia and received his medical degree in 1945, just as the war ended.
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Rolf Niedergerke entered into medical service at the hospital and clinic in his hometown.
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Rolf Niedergerke was rather isolated in a department mainly working on the control of the circulation in mammals, so he was glad to be invited by Alexander von Muralt to work in the Theodor Kocher Institute in Bern.
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Rolf Niedergerke made four important publications in German on frog nervous system during his research training.
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Rolf Niedergerke moved to England in the autumn of 1952 as a George Henry Lewes Student with additional support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Rolf Niedergerke was a good choice because his personal interest had been on skeletal muscle and had a good collection on the subject since his time in Gottingen.
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Rolf Niedergerke moved from Cambridge to London in 1955, joining the Biophysics Department at University College London.
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Rolf Niedergerke's condition was exacerbated by pneumonia, and he died on 27 December 2011 at the Royal Free Hospital in London.