Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt
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Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt was a German
physiologist and neurologist. He is the son of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
and the younger brother of Werner Creutzfeldt, a professor of internal medicine.
researcher
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Otto Creutzfeldt attended the gymnasium (high school) in Kiel. At university
he first studied the humanities, but soon switched to medicine, and obtained his M.D. at
Freiburg University in Germany in 1953. From 1953 and 1959 he was an assistant and trainee in
physiology with Prof. Hoffmann (Freiburg), in psychiatry with Prof.
Miiller (Bern), and in neurophysiology and neurology with Prof. Jung
(Freiburg). He continuied to work for two years as a research
anatomist at UCLA Medical School before moving to the
Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, where he stayed from
1962 to 1971. Creutzfeldt obtained there his degree in clinical
neurophysiology (University of Munich). In 1971 he became one of the
nine directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
, as head of the Department
of Neurobiology.
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large number of pupils who held chairs in German universities, Max-Planck-Institutes
and, Leibniz Institutes. From 1992 a lecture is given yearly, and from 1999 biennial, by distinguished scientists to his honour at the University of Göttingen during the Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society ("The Otto-Creutzfeldt-Lecture").
1992 Bert Sakmann
, Recordings of excitatory and inhibitory currents from visual cortex neurons: An effort lasting 25 years
1993 Heinz Wässle, Vision in darkness: The rod circuit of the mammalian retina
1994 Wolf Singer, The putative role of response synchronization in neocortical processing
1995 Henning Scheich, Auditory cortex: pattern analyzer and interpreter
1996 Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Evolution of motion perception and slow eye movement control in mammals
1997 Semir Zeki, The conscious vision of the blind and the modularity of consciousness
1998 Terry Sejnowski
, Computational neurobiology of sleep, and by Eric Kandel, Genes, synapses and long-term memory
1999 Gerhard Neuweiler, Hearing in echolocating bats, a paradigm for mammalian audition?
2003 Eckart O. Altenmüller, From Laetoli to Carnegie: musician's brains and neuroplasticity
2005
2007 Uwe Heinemann, Cellular mechanisms of memory consolidation in the hippocampal formation
2009 Atsushi Iriki, Neuroscience of Primate Intellectual Evolution
2011 Jan Born, The memory function of sleep (announced)
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
physiologist and neurologist. He is the son of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was born in Harburg upon Elbe and died in Munich.-Biography:...
and the younger brother of Werner Creutzfeldt, a professor of internal medicine.
Career
A remarkable career made Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt an renownedresearcher
.
Otto Creutzfeldt attended the gymnasium (high school) in Kiel. At university
he first studied the humanities, but soon switched to medicine, and obtained his M.D. at
Freiburg University in Germany in 1953. From 1953 and 1959 he was an assistant and trainee in
physiology with Prof. Hoffmann (Freiburg), in psychiatry with Prof.
Miiller (Bern), and in neurophysiology and neurology with Prof. Jung
(Freiburg). He continuied to work for two years as a research
anatomist at UCLA Medical School before moving to the
Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, where he stayed from
1962 to 1971. Creutzfeldt obtained there his degree in clinical
neurophysiology (University of Munich). In 1971 he became one of the
nine directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....
, as head of the Department
of Neurobiology.
Awards
1992 The K-J. Zülch Prize of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation awarded posthumously for "Neurophysiology of neuronal correlates of higher behavioral performance, particularly of sight and speech.
The Otto-Creutzfeldt-Lecture
Creutzfeldt had a profound impact on neuroscience in particular in Germany for he had an unusuallylarge number of pupils who held chairs in German universities, Max-Planck-Institutes
and, Leibniz Institutes. From 1992 a lecture is given yearly, and from 1999 biennial, by distinguished scientists to his honour at the University of Göttingen during the Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society ("The Otto-Creutzfeldt-Lecture").
1992 Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
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, Recordings of excitatory and inhibitory currents from visual cortex neurons: An effort lasting 25 years
1993 Heinz Wässle, Vision in darkness: The rod circuit of the mammalian retina
1994 Wolf Singer, The putative role of response synchronization in neocortical processing
1995 Henning Scheich, Auditory cortex: pattern analyzer and interpreter
1996 Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Evolution of motion perception and slow eye movement control in mammals
1997 Semir Zeki, The conscious vision of the blind and the modularity of consciousness
1998 Terry Sejnowski
Terry Sejnowski
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory...
, Computational neurobiology of sleep, and by Eric Kandel, Genes, synapses and long-term memory
1999 Gerhard Neuweiler, Hearing in echolocating bats, a paradigm for mammalian audition?
2003 Eckart O. Altenmüller, From Laetoli to Carnegie: musician's brains and neuroplasticity
2005
2007 Uwe Heinemann, Cellular mechanisms of memory consolidation in the hippocampal formation
2009 Atsushi Iriki, Neuroscience of Primate Intellectual Evolution
2011 Jan Born, The memory function of sleep (announced)