| Authorised form of name | Kronecker; Hugo (1839 - 1914) |
| Dates | 1839 - 1914 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Liegnitz [Legnica, Poland], Prussian Silesia |
| Date of birth | 27 January 1839 |
| Place of death | Bad Nauheim, Germany, Europe |
| Date of death | 06/06/1914 |
| Occupation | Physiologist |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Activity | Education: Berlin, Heidelberg, and Pisa; MD Berlin; D. Sc Cambridge, honorary Doctor of Laws (University of Glasgow) (1901)
Career: Leipzig Physiological Institute, later known as Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology with Carl Ludwig (1868); lectured with a thesis on fatigue and recovery of skeletal muscles (1872); department director in the Physiological Institute, Berlin (1878); appointed chairman of Physiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland (1885) where he built a new Institute of Physiology. |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 25/03/1909 |
| Age at election | 70 |
| Proposer | J Rose Bradford; G H Darwin; Fred T Trouton; Frederick W Mott; C A Parsons; William Crookes; H M Macdonald; Horace Lamb; James Stirling |
| Relationships | Siblings: Leopold Kronecker (For Mem RS 1884) |
| OtherInfo | Died suddenly of apoplexy.
First to study, along with his learner Samuel James Meltzer, oesophageal manometry in humans.
Chiefly investigated the contractility of muscle, movements of the heart, and the effect upon it of rarefied air. At the same time as Marey, discovered that during one period of its cycle the ventricle will not respond to stimuli.
Discovered what is now referred to as Kronecker's point in the heart, puncture of which causes the heart to stop at once and permanently.
His investigations on the effect of rarefied air upon the circulation convinced him that the ascent even to considerable altitudes if unaccompanied by muscular strain is without danger, and on his report to this effect the building of the well-known Jungfrau Tunnel (Bernese Alps, Switzerland) was begun. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Nature volume 93, pages410–411 (1914), Lauder Brunton, Prof. Hugo Kronecker, for.Mem.R.S., [URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/093410a0; last accessed: 11/01/2024]
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp xlix-l, plate, signed by E A S |
| Code | NA5019 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1909/02 | Kronecker, Hugo: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |