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Prof. Jonathan Magnes (1912 – 1980)

Prof. Magnes

Prof. Magnes was born in 1912 in New York and immigrated to Palestine in 1922. As a Ph.D. candidate, Prof. Magnes started his academic career studying the functional metabolism of glucose in the brain using a unique brain perfusion technique under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Geiger. Employing this technique, he continued his work as a principal investigator and published numerous papers on the metabolism of glucose and amino acids in the brain under different physiological conditions.

His scientific achievements made him an internationally renowned scientist in his field. He served on UNESCO’s international advisory committee on arid zones research and on the neurochemistry panel of the International Brain Research Society. He was also a member of the World Federation of Neurology.

In addition to his research achievements, Prof. Magnes founded the Department of Physiology at the Hebrew University – Hadassa Medical School and also served as the Dean of the faculty of Medicine. In 1962 he founded the Israel Society for Physiology and Pharmacology and served as its first president.

Prof. Magnes was well-known not only for his scientific achievements but also for his special personality, being a noble and modest person. Following his death in 1980, his family and the Department of Physiology members of at the Hebrew University have established a fund to commemorate his memory by scientific lectures given by outstanding scientists at the annual meetings of the Israel Society of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Magnes Lecturers and ISPP Plenary Speakers

Lecturer Institute Year
Annette Dolphin Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, England 2019
Arthur Konnert Institute of Neuroscience, Technische Universitat München, Germany 2016
Dario DiFrancesco Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy 2015
Peter Agre Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 2014
Clifford Woolf Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA 2013
Bruce Bean Harvard Brain Science Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA 2011
Ehud Isacoff University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 2010
Michel Lazdunski Institut Universitaire de France, and Prof. of Pharmacology, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France 2008
Irwin Levitan Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2007
Hermann Steller Strang Laboratory of Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA 2006
David Julius Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA 2006
Michel Revel Dept. of Molecular genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2005
Peter Jenner Dept of Biomedical Sciences, King’s College London, University of London, England 2004
Denis Noble University Laboratory of Physiology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, England 2003
Marta Weinstock-Rosin Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1999
William J. Betz Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Univ. of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA 1998
Geoffrey Burnstock Director of Autonomic Neuroscience Inst. Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK 1998
King-Wai Yau Dept. of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA 1996
Richard Tsein Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, CA, USA 1993
Denis A. Baylor Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, CA, USA 1990
Chris Miller Dept. of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A. 1990
Harald Reuter Pharmakologisches Institut, Universitat Bern, Switzerland 1988
Torsten Wiesel Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA 1988
Charles Gilbert Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA 1988
Bert Sackmann Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany 1982

 

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