Jacques loeb biography

German-born American physiologist and biologist

Jacques Loeb (;^[1]German:[løːp]; April 7, – February 11, ) was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.

Biography

Jacques (born Itzak) Loeb, firstborn son of a Jewish family from the German Eifel region, was educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M.D. ). He took postgraduate courses at the universities of Strasburg and Berlin, and in became assistant at the physiological institute of the University of Würzburg, remaining there until In a similar capacity, he then went to Strasburg University.

During his vacations he pursued biological research, at Kiel in , and at Naples in and

Jacques Loeb first arrived in the United States in when he accepted a position at Bryn Mawr College, however, they provided insufficient facilities for his work which would later influence his resignation.^[2] In , he was called to the University of Chicago as assistant profes