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On 9 March 1937 he married
Johanna Maria Katharina GreĂhöner, known as Hanna, a friend from Berlin who had arrived in Scotland in 1935. Both Kosterlitz parents and their younger son Rolf moved to the UK in 1939, and lived at 110b Banbury Road, Oxford. The
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hospital, University of Berlin, where he worked in the radiology department. His daytime job in clinical radiology funded his evening researches in the laboratory, where he developed an interest in carbohydrate metabolism.
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Kosterlitz's father had recommended a career in law. He gave it a try for six months at the
University of Berlin, but then switched to medicine. He graduated in 1928 and worked in the department of
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Aberdeen, who managed to accumulate some modest funding, sufficient for him to reply âcome to Aberdeen ⊠but no guarantee of a secure jobâ. Kosterlitz arrived the following March.
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to the solution, the muscle would not contract. Opiates inhibited the contraction. Those contractions were later found to resume in the presence of both opiates and an
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Kosterlitz was born on 27 April 1903 in Berlin. He was the elder son of Bernhard Kosterlitz, a physician, and Selma Helena Lepman.
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Macleod's untimely death on 16 March 1935, Kosterlitz was awarded the first ever project grant (ÂŁ50) from the newly founded
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Lees, G. M. (1998). "A tribute to the late Hans W. Kosterlitz: Ploughing the lone furrow".
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Bernhard as a medical referee for an insurance company. Hans and Hanna had a son,
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Henderson, G.; Hughes, J.; Kosterlitz, H. W. (1972).
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