| 词条 | Heinz Wolff |
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| name = Heinz Wolff | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|FIEE|FRSA}} | image = Professor Heinz Wolff 3529.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = Professor Heinz Wolff | caption = Professor Heinz Wolff in 2010 | birth_name = Heinz Siegfried Wolff | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|04|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|12|15|1928|04|29|df=y}} | death_place = London, United Kingdom | residence = | citizenship = British | nationality = | fields = Bioengineering | workplaces = Brunel University | alma_mater = University College London | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Heinz Siegfried Wolff, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|FIEE|FRSA}} (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist as well as a television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series The Great Egg Race.[1][2][3] Early lifeWolff was born in Berlin. His father, Oswald Wolff, was a volunteer in World War I[4] and a publisher specializing in German history.[5] His mother, Margot Wolff (née Saalfeld) died "of an acute heart infection" in 1938.[4][4][5] Father and son fled to the Netherlands in August 1939, and then arrived as Jewish refugees in Britain on 3 September 1939,[6] on the same day that World War II was declared by Britain and France; Wolff was 11.[7] He was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys.[8] CareerWolff worked in haematology at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford under Robert Gwyn Macfarlane,[8] where he invented a machine for counting patients' blood cells, before joining the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff.[1][9] He went on to University College London (UCL), where he gained a first class honours degree in physiology and physics. Before going to UCL, he had been considered by Trinity College, Cambridge, but was rejected twice because his understanding of Latin was too weak.[10] He spent much of his early career in bioengineering, a term he coined in 1954[11] to take account of then recent advances in physiology. He became an honorary member of the European Space Agency in 1975, and in 1983 he founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, which was involved in biological research during weightless spaceflight. Following retirement, he was emeritus professor of bioengineering at Brunel University, working on a project aimed at addressing the care needs of older people.[7] Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station.[7] He is credited with the invention of the gel pad electrodes used in ECGs.[12] Popular scienceA familiar face in the 1970s and early 1980s, well known to British television audiences with his memorable bow tie and pronounced German accent, his best remembered programme is probably The Great Egg Race.[7] He was also the presenter of Great Experiments, and presenter/judge of the annual Young Scientists of the Year series.[1] {{Quote box|bgcolor=#FFDEAD|align=right|width=30%|"Working with Heinz was like being at the centre of an ideas factory; he was fiercely curious and always had new avenues to explore."[1] {{right|Gabriella Spinelli quoted by Joe Buchanunn, Brunel University, London}}}} In 1998 Professor Wolff was one of the first people to be interviewed by Ali G, during that character's initial appearances on The 11 O'Clock Show, where the discussion ranged from elementary particles to penis enlargement.[13][14] Also in 1989 he appeared on After Dark with, among others, astronaut Buzz Aldrin.[15] In 2007 Wolff made a guest appearance on Channel 4's Comedy Lab episode "Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool", where he is seen explaining to Pilkington the sudden rise of intelligence in Homo sapiens.[16] In March 2009, he appeared in the puzzle video game Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity.[17] LecturesIn 1975 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on Signals from the Interior.[18] In 2005 he presented the Higginson Lecture at Durham University.[19] Personal lifeIn 1953, he married Joan Stephenson, a staff nurse originally from Cardiff, whom he met at work.[1] They lived in north London. Widowed in October 2014, he died from heart failure on 15 December 2017. He is survived by his two sons,[1][7] Anthony[20] and Laurence.[21] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |last1=Buchanunn |first1=Joe |title=Professor Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter, dies aged 89 |url=http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Professor-Heinz-Wolff-scientist-and-TV-presenter-dies-aged-89 |website=Brunel University London |access-date=16 December 2017 |date=16 December 2017}} 2. ^{{cite web |title=Birthdays today |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-4-29.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 April 2014 |date=29 April 2011 |quote=Prof. Heinz Wolff, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Bioengineering, Brunel University, 83}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Heinz Wolff |website=Brunel University |url=http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history/memorials/buildings/wolff |access-date=8 May 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629223026/http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history/memorials/buildings/wolff |archivedate=29 June 2007}} 4. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-heinz-wolff-zs8kr2wx3 |title=Professor Heinz Wolff |date=18 December 2017 |subscription=yes |newspaper=The Times}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Obituary: Ilse Wolff 1908–2001 |url=http://www.ajr.org.uk/index.cfm/section.journal/issue.Apr01/article=618 |first=Heinz |last=Wolff |website=Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) |location=London |date=April 2001 |accessdate=20 December 2017}} 6. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=https://tech2.org/uk/obituary-of-heinz-wolff-science/ |title=Obituary of Heinz Wolff |date=17 December 2017 |website=TECH2}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |last1=Grierson|first1=James |title=Heinz Wolff, scientist and Great Egg Race presenter, dies at 89 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/16/heinz-wolff-scientist-and-great-egg-race-presenter-dies-at-89 |access-date=16 December 2017 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 December 2017}} 8. ^1 {{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-professor-heinz-wolff-scientist-and-broadcaster-1701733.html |title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Professor Heinz Wolff |date=10 June 2009 |first=Jonathan |last=Sale |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=16 December 2017}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.histmodbiomed.org/blog/image-month-professor-heinz-wolff.html |title=Image of the Month: Professor Heinz Wolff |website=The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group |publisher=Queen Mary University of London |access-date=16 December 2017}} 10. ^{{cite journal |journal=New Scientist |date=10 May 1984 |page=47 |volume=102 |number=1409 |title=Heinz Wolff: a technology buff |first=Fabian |last=Acker}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.heinzwolff.co.uk/ |title=Professor Heinz Wolff |website=Heinzwolff.co.uk |access-date=13 November 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208024734/http://www.heinzwolff.co.uk/ |archivedate=8 February 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 12. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42378765 |title=Heinz Wolff, Great Egg Race presenter and scientist, dies |website=BBC News |date=16 December 2017}} 13. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/prof-heinz-wolff-jewish-refugee-turned-scientist-and-tv-host-dies-at-89/ |first=Tracy |last=Frydberg |title=Prof. Heinz Wolff, Jewish refugee turned scientist and UK TV host, dies at 89 |newspaper=The Times of Israel |date=17 December 2017 |accessdate=19 December 2017}} 14. ^{{cite book |last1=Ritchie |first1=Harry |title=English for the Natives |date=2013 |publisher=Hodder |location=London |isbn=978-1-84854-837-4 |page=87 }} 15. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.openmedia.co.uk/afterdark3.htm |website=Open Media |title=After Dark Series 3 |access-date=16 December 2017}} 16. ^{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Esther |title=Interview: Karl Pilkington |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/interview-is-karl-pilkington-as-ricky-gervais-describes-really-the-funniest-man-alive-396584.html |access-date=16 December 2017 |newspaper=The Independent |date=10 October 2007}} 17. ^{{cite web |title=E3 2008: Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity Hands-On |url=http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/professorheinzwolffsgravity/news.html?sid=6194787&mode=gsreview |website=Gamespot.com |access-date=7 September 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721025637/http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/professorheinzwolffsgravity/news.html?sid=6194787&mode=gsreview |archivedate=21 July 2009 |df=dmy-all }} 18. ^{{cite web |title=Signals from the Interior |url=http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1975/signals-from-the-interior |website=The Royal Institute |access-date=16 December 2017}} 19. ^{{cite web |title=Higginson Lectures |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/engineering/news/prestigiouslectures/higginsonlecture/precis/ |website=Durham University |access-date=16 December 2017}} 20. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=m4kRcX%2FVaw%2BWu%2Fvi4KDxLA&scan=1 |title=Index entry |accessdate=20 December 2017 |website=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}} 21. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=7tnhV%2BuXqr4qzoA9OvBmPg&scan=1 |title=Index entry |accessdate=20 December 2017 |website=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}} External links
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