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Walter Rudolf Hess

1881 to 1973 6 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Walter Rudolf Hess across 6 places, from 1899 to 1967. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Walter Rudolf Hess was documented, and when

1899year
Lausanneattested “He started to study medicine in Lausanne in 1899 and then in Berlin, Kiel and Zürich.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
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Berlinattested “He started to study medicine in Lausanne in 1899 and then in Berlin, Kiel and Zürich.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
1907year
University of Zurichattested “In 1907, he went to the University of Zurich to study under Otto Haab to be trained as an ophthalmologist and opened his own private practice in Rapperswil SG.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
1907year
Rapperswilattested “In 1907, he went to the University of Zurich to study under Otto Haab to be trained as an ophthalmologist and opened his own private practice in Rapperswil SG.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
1967 to 1973period
Locarnoattested “In 1967, he moved to Ascona and died of heart failure in 1973 at the age of 92 in Locarno, Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
1967 to 1973period
Asconaattested “In 1967, he moved to Ascona and died of heart failure in 1973 at the age of 92 in Locarno, Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess

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Places Walter Rudolf Hess is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1899Lausanne1 presence · 1899University of Zurich1 presence · 1907
Ascona1 presence · 1967
Locarno1 presence · 1967
Rapperswil1 presence · 1907

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In each of these, a source puts Walter Rudolf Hess and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Walter Rudolf Hess was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

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University of Zurichmentioned “He received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1906 and trained as surgeon in Münsterlingen (in the same canton as his birthplace Frauenfeld) under Conrad Brunner (1859–1927).” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
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Münsterlingenmentioned “He received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1906 and trained as surgeon in Münsterlingen (in the same canton as his birthplace Frauenfeld) under Conrad Brunner (1859–1927).” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess
1916year
University of Zurichmentioned “In 1916, Gaule retired and Hess first became interim director of the Department of the Physiological Institute at the University of Zurich.” source: Wikipedia: Walter Rudolf Hess

Documented at the same place, the same year

Gabriel NarutowiczUniversity of Zurich · 1907Albert SchweitzerHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Ioannis MetaxasHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Dietrich EckartHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Houston Stewart ChamberlainHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Kurt TucholskyHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899Robert E. ParkHumboldt University of Berlin · 1899

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