Wolfgang Trautwein#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 381 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | |
Wolfgang Trautwein passed away April 7, 2011.
Positions Held
- 1971 - 1990 Professor of Physiology at the University of Saarland in Homburg and Director of the Institute of Physiology II
- 1969/70 Dean of the Medical Faculty
- 1966 Full professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
- 1962 Director of the Institute of Physiology II
- 1954 Professor on the electrophysiology of the heart muscle
- 1947 Assistant at WG Kerckhoff Institute (now Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)
Fields of Scholarship
- Problems of the spread of excitation in hearts
- Heart muscle cells
- Electrophysiology of the heart
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Professor of the University of Konstanz
- Honorary Member of the German Physiological Society
- Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Physiology
- Honorary Member of the European Society of Cardiology
- Honorary Member of the American Cardiac Muscle Society
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
