| LC control no. | n 89133223 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Frank, Otto |
| Birth date | 1865-06-21 |
| Death date | 1944-11-12 |
| Place of birth | Gross-Umstadt (Germany) |
| Place of death | Munich (Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Cardiologists Physiologists |
| Found in | Erwin Riesch Symposium (1988 : Tùˆbingen, Germany). Evaluation of cardiac contractility, 1990: t.p. (dedicated to Otto Frank) Wikipedia, 21 Nov. 2017 (Otto Frank; full name: Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Otto Frank; born 21 June 1865 in Gross-Umstadt, Germany; died 12 November 1944 in Munich, Germany; doctor and physiologist who made several important contributions to cardiac physiology and cardiology; best known for his work on the isometric and isotonic contractile behavior of the heart; along with Ernest Starling, credited for providing the foundations of the Frank-Starling law of the heart; also known for work on the Windkessel effect, fat absorption, oscillatory characteristics of the auditory apparatus of the ear, the thermodynamics of muscle, the physiological basis of the arterial pulse waveform, and methods to measure blood pressure and other physiological phenomena) |
| Associated language | ger |
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