Professor Paul Korner interviewed by Professor John Chalmers
TitleProfessor Paul Korner interviewed by Professor John Chalmers
Reference240000067
Date2008
Scope and ContentVideo interview and transcript of interview.
Paul Korner was born in 1925 in Moravská Ostrava in Czechoskovakia (now the Czech Republic). At age 13, Korner, along with his mother, father and brother, fled to England to escape the Nazis. After spending a year in England the family emigrated to the safety of Australia. Korner completed his secondary schooling at Barker College in Hornsby, NSW as dux of the school. He enrolled in a medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1943, which he finally completed in 1951, having taken some time out from his medical studies to finish a BSc (1946) and an MSc (1947). Korner went on to the Kanematsu Research Institute at Sydney Hospital in 1952, after spending a year as a medical resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. During this time he was working on the link between hypoxia and pulmonary capillary permeability. From the Kanematsu Institute he travelled to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, in 1954 and then on to Harvard where he developed his experimental skills further.
Upon return to Australia he took up a senior lecturer position at the University of Sydney (1956–60), followed by the offer of foundation chair in physiology at the University of New South Wales (1960–68), the foundation Scandrett professor of cardiology at the University of Sydney (1968–74) and then the director of the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne (1975–90). During his career Korner tackled a number of scientific questions in the fields of exercise physiology, circulatory control and hypertension; about which he has written the definitive book, Essential Hypertension and Its Causes: Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms.
Professor Paul Korner AO MD Hon DSc (UNSW) MD (hc) (Melb) FAA passed away on 3 October 2012.
Paul Korner was born in 1925 in Moravská Ostrava in Czechoskovakia (now the Czech Republic). At age 13, Korner, along with his mother, father and brother, fled to England to escape the Nazis. After spending a year in England the family emigrated to the safety of Australia. Korner completed his secondary schooling at Barker College in Hornsby, NSW as dux of the school. He enrolled in a medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1943, which he finally completed in 1951, having taken some time out from his medical studies to finish a BSc (1946) and an MSc (1947). Korner went on to the Kanematsu Research Institute at Sydney Hospital in 1952, after spending a year as a medical resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. During this time he was working on the link between hypoxia and pulmonary capillary permeability. From the Kanematsu Institute he travelled to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, in 1954 and then on to Harvard where he developed his experimental skills further.
Upon return to Australia he took up a senior lecturer position at the University of Sydney (1956–60), followed by the offer of foundation chair in physiology at the University of New South Wales (1960–68), the foundation Scandrett professor of cardiology at the University of Sydney (1968–74) and then the director of the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne (1975–90). During his career Korner tackled a number of scientific questions in the fields of exercise physiology, circulatory control and hypertension; about which he has written the definitive book, Essential Hypertension and Its Causes: Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms.
Professor Paul Korner AO MD Hon DSc (UNSW) MD (hc) (Melb) FAA passed away on 3 October 2012.
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword P. I. Korner, John Philip Chalmers
SubjectCardiovascular system--Diseases, Physiology, Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Science--History, Science--Social aspects
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