Edith Bulbring is a British researcher of German descent in the field of physiology and pharmacology of smooth muscles , one of the first women members of the Royal Society of London .
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Biography
Born and raised in Germany. [1] Father, Karl Bulbring, was a professor of English philology at the University of Bonn . Her mother, Hortense Leonora Kahn, came from a wealthy family of Jewish bankers from The Hague . Her uncle Joseph Israel was a famous Dutch artist. In addition to her, the family had 3 more older children. [2]
She studied at the medical faculty of the University of Bonn, which she graduated in 1928. Later she worked as a doctor, and in 1929 went to work as a volunteer in the laboratory of pharmacologist Paul Trendelenburg . In 1931, her leader died of tuberculosis, so she moved to Jena, where she worked as a doctor. Subsequently, she got a job in the laboratory of the immunologist Ulrich Friedemann at the University of Berlin. At the beginning of 1933, when all Jews were expelled from the university, Bulbring managed to keep the post, since she was Jewish only from her mother, but she was soon reduced as well. In September 1933, she moved to London with her sister Maud and two friends. Soon, on the recommendation of a familiar physiologist, Henry Dale, she managed to enter the laboratory under the direction of Joshua Byrne . [2]
From 1953 to 1971 she headed the laboratory of smooth muscle physiology at the University of Oxford . In 1956, Edith Buluring became the second female member of the Royal Society of London in history.
Edith Bulbring died in 1990 after several operations.
Contribution
Bulbring was a pioneer in the study of the physiology and pharmacology of smooth muscles.
She collaborated with many famous physiologists. In particular, she studied and was friends with Martha Vogt , worked with Mikhail Shuba . [3]
Notes
- ↑ Edith Bulbring Pharmacology hall of fame. British Pharmacology Society
- ↑ 1 2 Alison Brading, Tom Bolton. Edith Bulbring 1903-1990. Jewish Woman Archive Encyclopedia
- ↑ Magura, I.S. (2009), "Scientific activity of NF Shuba and its significance for the development of the views of modern physiology of smooth muscles", in Shuba Ya.M., Shevko AM, Academician Mikhail Shuba in his memoirs , K .: Scientific Thought, p. . 12-18