Kurt Jungermann: A pioneer in liver research

Ass. Prof. Kurt Hühn- pioneer of Croatian ophthalmology.

The late Kurt Hühn (Zagreb, 1875- Rijeka, 1963) was one of the most outstanding figures in the history of Croatian ophthalmology. From 1904 to 1940 he was the head of the Department for Eye Diseases of the Nuns' Hospital (Bolnica sestara milosrdnica) in Zagreb. Under his guidance, the department developed into the largest of the kind in the Balkans, and did not in any respect lag behind other e...

Kurt Lewin on Reeducation : Foundations for Action Research

Grete Kellenberger-Gujer: Molecular biology research pioneer

Grete Kellenberger-Gujer was a Swiss molecular biologist who pioneered fundamental studies of bacteriophage in the mid-20(th) century at the University of Geneva. Her life and career stories are reviewed here, focusing on her fundamental contributions to our early understanding of phage biology via her insightful analyses of phenomena such as the lysogenic state of a temperate phage (λ), geneti...

James Jurin (1684-1750): a pioneer of crowding research?

James Jurin wrote an extended essay on distinct and indistinct vision in 1738. In it, he distinguished between "perfect," "distinct," and "indistinct vision" as perceptual categories, and his meticulous descriptions and analyses of perceptual phenomena contained observations that are akin to crowding. Remaining with the concepts of his day, however, he failed to recognize crowding as separate f...

Kurt Semm: A laparoscopic crusader

A brief biography of Kurt Semm, the pioneer of laparoscopic appendectomy and inventor of various laparoscopic instruments are done, with special reference to his struggle to establish the foundation of minimally invasive surgery amongst his contemporary surgeons.