Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox scientist Adolf Eugen Fick (3 September 1829 – 21 August 1901) was a German-born physician and physiologist.
Early life and educationEdit
Fick began his work in the formal study of mathematics and physics before realising an aptitude for medicine. He then earned his doctorate in medicine from the University of Marburg in 1851. As a fresh medical graduate, he began his work as a prosector.<ref name="VL">The Virtual Laboratory: Fick, Adolf Eugen, accessed 5 February 2006</ref> He died in Flanders at age 71.
CareerEdit
{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} In 1855, he introduced Fick's laws of diffusion, which govern the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870, he was the first to measure cardiac output, using what is now called the Fick principle.
Fick managed to double-publish his law of diffusion, as it applied equally to physiology and physics. His work led to the development of the direct Fick method for measuring cardiac output.
AnecdotalEdit
Fick's nephew, Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, invented the contact lens.<ref name="CL">The "Kontaktbrille" of Adolf Eugen Fick (1887) Template:Webarchive, accessed 20 April 2010</ref>
ReferencesEdit
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External linksEdit
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Science Quotes by Adolf Eugen Fick (todayinsci.com)