27-day cycles in human mortality: Traute and Bernhard Düll
| Autor: | T. A. Zenchenko, N. Düll-Pfaff, Othild Schwartzkopff, E. M. Freytag, Lyazzat Gumarova, J. Freytag, Germaine Cornelissen, Franz Halberg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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lcsh:Dynamic and structural geology
Poison control Context (language use) Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Article German History and Philosophy of Science lcsh:QE500-639.5 Injury prevention lcsh:Science business.industry lcsh:QE1-996.5 lcsh:QC801-809 Human factors and ergonomics language.human_language lcsh:QC1-999 lcsh:Geology lcsh:Geophysics. Cosmic physics Publishing language General Earth and Planetary Sciences lcsh:Q business Psychology lcsh:Physics Demography |
| Zdroj: | History of Geo-and Space Sciences, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 47-59 (2013) |
| ISSN: | 2190-5029 2190-5010 |
| Popis: | This tribute to her parents by one co-author (NDP) is the fruit of a more than a decade-long search by the senior author (FH) for the details of the lives of Bernhard and Gertraud (''Traute'') Düll. These pioneers studied how space/terrestrial weather may differentially influence human mortality from various causes, the 27-day mortality pattern being different whether death was from cardiac or respiratory disease, or from suicide. FH is the translator of personal information about her parents provided by NDP in German. Figuratively, he also attempts to ''translate'' the Dülls' contribution in the context of the literature that had appeared before their work and after their deaths. Although the Dülls published in a then leading journal, among others (and FH had re-analyzed some of their work in a medical journal), they were unknown to academies or libraries (where FH had inquired about them). The Dülls thoroughly assembled death certificates to offer the most powerful evidence for an effect of solar activity reflected in human mortality, as did others before them. They went several steps further than their predecessors, however. They were the first to show possibly differential effects of space and/or Earth weather with respect to suicide and other deaths associated with the nervous and sensory systems vs. death from cardiac or respiratory disease as well as overall death by differences in the phase of a common 27-day cycle characterizing these mortality patterns. Furthermore, Bernhard Düll developed tests of human visual and auditory reaction time to study effects of weather and solar activity, publishing a book (his professorial dissertation) on the topic. His unpublished finding of an increased incidence of airplane crashes in association with higher solar activity was validated after his death, among others, by Tatiana Zenchenko and A. M. Merzlyi. |
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