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Based on the reconstruction of Zuntz’s personal and scientific development of the investigation of the historical construction and expansion of the fields of study and institutions connected with aviation, it is possible to gain an understanding of the evolution of scientific aviation in Berlin, as shown in Figure 4.1. This diagram illustrates how closely the various organizations of the aviation association, the military and the scientific institutes in Berlin were both interrelated and mutually dependent. If the Deutscher Verein zur Förderung der Luftschiffahrt (German Association for the Encouragement of Aviation) was the starting point for the development of aviation in Berlin, then the decisive force behind the logistical expansion of this association lay in Assmann’s plans for meteorologically equipped scientific air expeditions. It became possible to realize these plans thanks to both a donation to the association from the German Kaiser in 1892, and the support of personnel from the Berlin Aviation Department, later the Aviation Battalion (1899).
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cf. Kirsch, K. and Winau, R.: The early days of space medicine in Germany, Aviation Space Environ. Med. 57 (1986) p. 634.
cf. Strughold, H.: Development of aviation medicine in Germany. In: German Aviation Medicine: World War II, volume 1, Dept of the Air Force 1950, pp. 3–11. Years before, Strughold had already concerned himself with the history of this specialty in another article: see Strughold, H.: Geschichtliches zur Luftfahrtmedizin (Historical notes on aviation medicine), Luftfahrtmedizinische Abhandlungen 1 (1936–37), pp. 16–22. Although in the latter treatise Strughold emphasizes the importance of Zuntz’s research for research in high altitude physiology, there is no reference to Zuntz’s Zur Physiologie und Hygiene der Luftfahrt.
Otto Frank was born on June 21, 1865, in Grossumstadt, Odenwald, Germany. He completed his medical studies in 1889, and in 1891 went to work for Ludwig in Leipzig. In 1894, he was Voit’s assistant in Munich. He remained there until 1905, when he accepted an appointment to the chair of physiology in Giessen. In 1908, he returned to Munich to take over the chair held by Voit (1831–1908). Frank’s scientific work is marked above all by a physical and mathematical analysis of circulation. His research in that field had already received great recognition and respect during his lifetime. Frank died in 1944 in Munich (cf. Rothschuh, K. E.: Geschichte der Physiologie (A History of Physiology), Springer 1953, pp. 184–186). By contrast, however, the Berlin physiologist Gauer (1909–1979), remarked that Frank “tyrannized the Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft (German Physiological Society) for decades with his mathematical chatter” (oral statement by K. Kirsch to the author in December 1987).
cf. Armsby, H. P.: The Nutrition of Farm Animals, Macmillan 1917, pp. 90, 211–343. cf. Benedict, F.: An apparatus for studying the respiratory exchange. Am. J. Physiol. 24 (1909) pp. 345–374.
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Gunga, HC. (2008). Conclusion. In: Nathan Zuntz. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7575-0_4
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