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Doctor Siegfried Placzeck studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Kiel, Leipzig and Jena.
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Siegfried Placzek
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He traveled to America in 1893 on a study tour, publishing his findings in a book, "Medical Science in the United States. The couple had two children, Doctor Henry Platt (AKA Heinz Placzek) of New York, New York, (1903 – 1955) and Doctor Gerda Haupt (1901 - 1989) of Santiago Chile. They divorced in 1910.
As a pioneer in the study of effects of air travel and high altitudes, he made many balloon ascents around the turn of the 20th century to study the effects of high altitudes on human psychological behavior.
Foreign many years he was employed as a neurological expert by the German railway systems and did considerable work as a medical expert in criminal trials. In 1939, upon retiring, Doctor Placzek moved to America to escape Nazi persecution where he devoted much of his time to studying and lecturing.
His other published works span a quarter of a century, including a number of treatises on work in his field, all published in German. He is also the author of studies on accident neurosis and a volume dealing with the physician’s obligation to professional secrecy.
