Paul Ivan Korner 1925–2012

Professor Paul Korner AO FAA was a cardiovascular physiologist who made major contributions to understanding the pathogenesis of hypertension and to improving the management of cardiovascular diseases.
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Paul Korner's life's work centered on unraveling the sympatho-adrenal control of the circulation and applying this knowledge to understanding the pathogenesis of hypertension and to improving the management of cardiovascular diseases. He made major contributions as Foundation Professor of Physiology at the University of New South Wales (1960–8), as the first Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1968–74), and as Director of the Baker Institute for Medical Research (1975–90). After retirement in 1990, he undertook his last major work, writing an influential single-author text, Essential Hypertension and it Causes.

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This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 24(2), 2013. It was written by John Chalmers, James Angus, Robert Graham, John Carmody, Roger Dampney, Garry Jennings and Nicholas Korner.

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Professor Paul Korner (1925-2012), cardiovascular physiologist

Professor Paul Korner interviewed by Professor John Chalmers in 2008. Paul Korner was born in 1925 in Moravská Ostrava in Czechoskovakia (now the Czech Republic). At age 13, Korner, along with his mother, father and brother, fled to England to escape the Nazis. After spending a year in England the family emigrated to the safety of Australia.
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