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BY the death of Prof. Max Verworn at Bonn on November 23 last, a notable figure, who could ill be spared on account of the breadth of his outlook, has been lost to biology. Verworn had just completed his fifty-eighth year, having been born in Berlin on November 4, 1863. He received his school and early university education in his native city, and graduated Ph.D. in Berlin in 1887, and later M.D. in Jena in 1889. After graduation in medicine, his interests being then largely zoological, he paid a long visit to Villef ranche and Naples, and later continued his investigations along the coast of the Red Sea. On his return to Jena Verworn was appointed assistant in the Physiology Institute, and in 1891 was duly approved as Privatdozent. After a few years' work, including a second visit to the Red Sea, he became extraordinary professor of physiology in Jena in 1895. In 1901 he was called to Gottingen as professor of physiology, and in 1910, on the death of Pfliiger, he became the professor of physiology at Bonn. Verworn received many academic distinctions. In this country he was an Sc.D. of Cambridge and an LL.D. of St. Andrews. He was also an honorary or corresponding member of many of the Continental scientific societies, in Moscow, Vienna, Rome, Halle, etc. Twice he was invited to visit America, on the second occasion as Silliman lecturer in the University of Yale.
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C., E. Prof. Max Verworn. Nature 109, 213 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109213a0
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