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| Titel |
27-day cycles in human mortality: Traute and Bernhard Düll |
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F. Halberg, N. Düll-Pfaff, L. Gumarova, T. A. Zenchenko, O. Schwartzkopff, E. M. Freytag, J. Freytag, G. Cornélissen |
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Englisch
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2190-5010
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In: History of Geo- and Space Sciences ; 4, no. 1 ; Nr. 4, no. 1 (2013-04-08), S.47-59 |
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250017781
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hgss-4-47-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| 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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