Hans Hermann Julius Wilhelm Weber (17 June 1896 – 12 June 1974) was a German physiologist and biochemist who worked on muscle structure and function. He was among the pioneers who helped establish the mechanism of muscle relaxation and contraction. His daughter Annemarie Weber also continued work in myosin biochemistry.
Weber was born in Berlin, son of physician Hermann Weber and Annemarie Becher. He studied at the Mommsen Gymnasium in Berlin and in 1914 he was conscripted and continued in military service until 1919 although he was wounded in 1916, allowing him to study medicine for a semester. After 1919 he continued his studies at Greifswald, Rostock and Heidelberg. His doctoral dissertation was under Hans Winterstein at Rostock and examined the role of lactic acid in rigor mortis induction. He received an MD in 1921 and worked in the laboratory of Otto Meyerhof at Kiel with a focus on muscle energetics. In 1922 he moved to Rostock to work again under Winterstein. He worked on the separation of myogen and myosin, following the work of Otto von Fürth and then began to examine the theories of muscle contraction. He then moved to Berlin where he worked under Peter Rona and interacted with Leonor Michaelis, Otto Warburg, and Kurt Hans Meyer. He moved to Münster University in 1927 and worked under Rudolf Rosemann and here he was able to produce myosin strands (actomyosin) and this was further developed by Alexander von Muralt and John Tileston Edsall at the Harvard Medical School in 1928 and the term Weber-Edsall myosin became commonplace. He became a chair of physiological chemistry at Königsberg University in 1939 but the war broke out and his studies were interrupted. However along with his colleague Manfred von Ardenne he was able to examine myosin using an electron microscope in 1941. Researchers in Moscow found that myosin was breaking down ATP while Albert Szent-Györgyi in Hungary found that ATP caused myosin to shrink. Work on isolating actin and myosin was begun by Brunó F. Straub. In 1944 the Nazi government funded Weber to study the use of animal serum albumin for human transfusion and he left Königsberg just before Soviet occupation. In 1946 he moved to the University of Tübingen and in 1954 he became director of the institute for physiology of the Max Planck Institute at Heidelberg. He worked here until his retirement in 1966.[1][2]
He married Marga Oltmanns, a philosophy student at Rostock, in 1922 and they had two daughters and a son including Annemarie Weber who studied under her father.[3]
^Hasselbach, W. (1975). "Hans Hermann Weber, 1896–1974". Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. 86. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg: 1–7. doi:10.1007/bfb0034657. ISBN 978-3-540-09488-3. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
^Hasselbach, W. (1976). "Hans Hermann Weber In Memoriam". In Heilmeyer, L. M. G. Jr; Ruegg, J. C.; Wieland, T. (eds.). Molecular Basis of Motility. Springer. pp. 3–6. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-81013-8. ISBN 978-3-642-81015-2. S2CID 22606289.
^Szent-Györgyi, Andrew G.; Bagshaw, Clive R. (2012). "A tribute to Annemarie Weber (1923–2012)". Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 33 (5): 301–303. doi:10.1007/s10974-012-9324-7. ISSN 0142-4319. PMID 23001794. S2CID 254746160.
and 20 Related for: Hans Hermann Weber information
HansHermann Julius Wilhelm Weber (17 June 1896 – 12 June 1974) was a German physiologist and biochemist who worked on muscle structure and function....
the daughter of the German physiologist HansHermannWeber who also studied muscle structure and function. Weber was born in Tübingen where her father worked...
on sediment transport. Hans Albert had four children, three biological sons and one adopted daughter, Evelyn Einstein. Of Hans Albert's biological sons...
Warburg Jürgen Warnatz Heinrich Friedrich Weber Wilhelm Eduard Weber Franz Wegner Stephanie Wehner Dieter Weichert Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller Richard M. Weiner...
birth, the Villa Weber in Bielefeld officially became the Hermann-Stenner-Haus museum. The core of the collection was provided by Hermann-Josef Bunte, a...
these works, Weber is commonly regarded as one of the central figures in the development of the social sciences. Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was born on...
the death bell will become the gallows rope for those who ring it." HermannWeber/Andreas Herbst: Deutsche Kommunisten. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 bis...
Walter Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin Eduard Ritter von Weber Heinrich Martin Weber Werner Weber Katrin Wehrheim Dieter Weichert Joachim Weickert Karl Weierstrass...
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf...
Adolf Hitler Rudolf Hess Hermann Göring Alfred Rosenberg Erich Ludendorff Ernst Röhm Julius Streicher Hermann Kriebel Friedrich Weber Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter...
Wilhelm Wattenbach Alfred Weber Batty Weber Karl Otto Weber Max Carl Wilhelm Weber Otto Weber (theologian) Franz Gerhard Wegeler Hans-Ulrich Wehler Werner...
Erich Weber (1860–1933), general Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863–1943), organist, composer and teacher Elmar Altvater (1938–2018), political scientist Hans-Heinrich...
Tore Cervin Mats Nordgren Jan Svensson Umberto Barberis Heinz Hermann Herbert HermannHans-Jörg Pfister Raimondo Ponte Markus Tanner Gian-Pietro Zappa Mustafa...
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ʃpɛər/; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister...
Johannes Weber were sentenced to 15 years. Richard Schroeder received 10 years, Erich Dinges five years, and Karl Jeschke three years. Hans Münch was...
Walther von Dyck, David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge, Rudolf Sturm, Hermann Schubert, and Heinrich Weber. The current president of the DMV...
Dorsch Anton Drexler Hermann Esser Karl Fiehler Josef Fitzthum Hans Frank Wilhelm Frick Albert Ganzenmüller Ernst Girzick Hermann Göring Ulrich Graf Jakob...
Bach-Zelewski, SS General Hermann Balck, German Army General Rudolf Bamler, German Army General Eleonore Baur, SS nurse and NSDAP member Hans Baur, SS General...
foundry, including Hans Bohn, Warren Chappell, F. H. Ehmcke, Friedrich Heinrichsen, Hanns Th. Hoyer, F. W. Kleukens, Erich Meyer, Hans Möhring, Hiero Rhode...
Theodor Bayrhoffer Ernst Cassirer Hermann Cohen Hans-Georg Gadamer Nicolai Hartmann Martin Heidegger Hans Heinz Holz Hans Jonas Friedrich Albert Lange Karl...