Adolf Eugen Fick

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name = Adolf Fick


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caption = Adolf Eugen Fick (1829-1901)
birth_date = 1 April 1829
birth_place = Kassel, Germany
death_date = 21 August 1901
death_place = Blankenberge, Flanders
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fields = Physiologist and biophysicist
workplaces = University of Zurich
University of Würzburg
alma_mater = University of Marburg
doctoral_advisor = Franz Ludwig Fick
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doctoral_students = Johann Jakob Müller
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known_for = Contact lens invention
Fick's law of diffusion
Fick Principle
Direct Fick method
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footnotes = He is the son of Franz Ludwig Fick. He is the nephew of Adolph Fick who invented tonometry.

Adolf Eugen Fick (1 April 1829, in Kassel, Germany – 21 August 1901, in Blankenberge, Flanders) was a German physiologist usually credited with the invention of contact lenses. He earned doctorate at Marburg in 1851.

In 1845 he introduced Fick's law of diffusion, which governs the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870 he was the first to devise a technique for measuring cardiac output, called the Fick Principle. In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. His idea was advanced independently by several innovators in the years that followed.

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.

References

*" [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/references?id=per69 The Virtual Laboratory: Fick, Adolf Eugen] ". URL accessed 5 February 2006.

External links

* [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per69 Short biography and bibliography] in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
* [http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/celebrities/inventors/inventors%201/adolf%20eugen%20fick.html Pictures of Fick]
* [http://www.experiencefestival.com/adolf_eugen_fick Articles about Fick]
* [http://www.todayinsci.com/F/Fick_Adolf/FickAdolf-Quotations.htm Fick quotations]
* [http://www.andrewgasson.co.uk/opioneers_fick.htm Fick biography]
* [http://www.dog.org/jhg/abstract_2004/english.html Fick biography]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=127308 Fick's math genealogy]

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NAME= Fick, Adolf Eugen
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=German physiologist, inventor of contact lenses and Fick's law of diffusion
DATE OF BIRTH= 3 September 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH=Kassel, Germany
DATE OF DEATH=21 August 1901
PLACE OF DEATH=Blankenberge, Flandern