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Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg was born in Hamburg on the 19th November 1900. He graduated in medicine in Berlin in 1925 and then came to England where he worked as a visiting scientist with J.N. Langley and Joseph Barcroft in Cambridge and with Henry Dale at the National Institute for Medical Research in Hampstead. Thus began his scientific career in medical research, a career which he pursued for the rest of his life. On returning to Germany in 1982, he worked with E. Schilf on the role of histame in allergic reactions, which research lead to our understanding of the pathology of asthma; together they published a book in 1930 on histamine, which they dedicated to Dale.
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Milton, A.S. (1994). W.S. Feldberg — his Contribution to the Pharmacology of Thermoregulation. In: Zeisberger, E., Schönbaum, E., Lomax, P. (eds) Thermal Balance in Health and Disease. APS Advances in Pharmacological Sciences. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7429-8_2
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