Georg Friedrich Nicolai belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Georg Friedrich Nicolai as German physiologist (1874-1964).
Georg Friedrich Nicolai was born at Berlin in 1874. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Charité and National University of Córdoba.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Georg Friedrich Nicolai died in 1964, aged 90. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Charité and National University of Córdoba
