Jerzy Vetulani

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Jerzy Adam Vetulani
File:Jerzy Vetulani fot Lech Polcyn.jpg
Born (1936-01-21)January 21, 1936
Kraków
Citizenship Polish
Occupation neuroscientist
pharmacologist
biochemist
Children Tomasz Vetulani
Parent(s) Adam Vetulani
Irena Latinik

Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (born 21 January 1936 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences.

Biography

He is the son of Adam Vetulani and Irena Latinik, grandson of Roman Vetulani, high school professor, and Franciszek Latinik, Polish Army general. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, honorary doctor of the Medical University of Silesia and the Medical University of Łódź, Professor at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków and vice-chairman of its scientific council.[1] He is one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine.[2]

He graduated in biology (1957) and chemistry (1962) from the Jagiellonian University, and received his PhD from Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1966).[3] He first gained recognition for an early hypothesis of the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs, suggesting, together with Fridolin Sulser, that downregulation of beta-adrenergic receptors is responsible for their effects.[4][5] Beside depression, his scientific interests include memory, addiction and neurodegeneration.

He is also known as the author of popular articles and lectures on the topic of neuroscience, as well as for his criticism of the repressive drug policy in Poland (he favors decriminalization of all drugs). He is a member of the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB); and from 1981 to 2002 the Editor-in-Chief of Wszechswiat, the oldest Polish popular science magazine.[6]

He was one of creators of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret. For some time, when Piotr Skrzynecki was in Paris, Vetulani replaced him as an announcer. From 1980 he was an activist in Solidarity.[6] Vetulani often appears on the stage of the talking magazine Gadający Pies (The Talking Dog).

Since June 2010 he has run a blog called Piękno neurobiologii (The Beauty of Neuroscience) on WordPress. On his blog Vetulani comments on the curiosities of the human brain.[7]

On July 8, 1963 he married Maria Pająk. They have two sons: Marek (born 1964) and Tomasz (born 1965).

Family tree

Honors and awards (selection)

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Jerzy Vetulani's Gazeta Krakowska Man of the Year statue.

References

  1. ↑ Institute of Pharmacology PAS Scientific Council
  2. ↑ Najczęściej cytowani naukowcy oraz prace naukowe w Polsce, raport za lata 1965 - 2001 na podstawie bazy “Science Citation Index” dotyczącej wszystkich światowych publikacji (in Polish)
  3. ↑ Database of Polish Information Processing Centre
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  5. ↑ Sulser F., Vetulani J.: Action of various antidepressant treatments reduces reactivity of noradrenergic cyclic AMP generating system in limbic forebrain, „Nature”, 257, 1975.
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Further reading

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External links

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