Research

Gerhard Hans Giebisch was an Austrian physiologist. He reached international appreciation through his research on renal physiology, in particular on the nephron and the metabolism of electrolytes. He spent most of his live in the USA where he became among other things a Sterling Professor at the Yale University in New Haven.

Career

• 1993 Richards Award of the International Society of Nephrology
• 1990 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine of the Jung Foundation for Science and                 Research
• Since 1988 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 1988 Volhard Medal of the German Society of Nephrology
• since 1983 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1980 Johannes Müller Medal of the German Physiological Society
• 1971 Homer Smith Award of the American Society of Nephrology
• since 1970 Sterling Professor at the Yale School of Medicine
• 1968-1973 Professor of Physiology at the Yale School of Medicine
• 1957-1968 Professor of Physiology at the Cornell University Medical College
• 1956-1957 Lecturer of Pharmacology at the University of Vienna
• 1952-1953 Post doctorand at the Milwaukee Hospital
• 1951 Dissertation at the University of Vienna