Background
Hess, Walter Rudolf was born on March 17, 1881. Son of Doctor Clemenz and Gertrud (Fischer Saxon) Hess.
Hess, Walter Rudolf was born on March 17, 1881. Son of Doctor Clemenz and Gertrud (Fischer Saxon) Hess.
Student medicine universities Lausanne, Berne, Berlin, Kiel and Zurich, 1900-1905. Doctor of Medicine, University Zurich, 1906. Doctor honoris causa in philosophy, U. Berne, 1933, in medicine U. Geneva, 1944, in science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1953, in medicine, Freiburg, Germany, 1960.
Assistant Physician and ophthalmologist, 1905-1908. Oculist, 1906-1912; assistant physiology, Zurich. Switzerland and Bonn, Germany, 1913-1917.
Professor physiology, director Physiological Institute, U. Zurich, 1917-1951, retired, 1951.
Professor emeritus, medical faculty U. Zurich.
Member or honorary; member numerous Swiss and foreign learned societies.
Married Luise Sandmeyer, 1909. Children: Gertrud, Rudolf.