Alfred Fabian Hess-a biographical sketch (October 9, 1875-December 5, 1933)
Darby, W.J.; Woodruff, C.W.
Journal of Nutrition 71: 3-9
1960
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3166 PMID: 13814074 Document Number: 8227
The father of brain chemistry, J. L. W. Thudichum, wrote that "Work, work, and again work were the three main features" of the success of science. These might easily have been the words of Doctor Alfred Hess, a study of whose life reveals that several similarities existed between these versatile giants. Both derived the stimulus for investigation from clinical patients who furnished their problems, and patients ultimately benefited from their solution. They were both men with triple careers of physician, scientific investigator and teacher. Such a career, according to Thudichum, merely demands that one is to "do the work of three men." To neither came major academic appointments and both made their scientific contributions despite a busy practice of medicine. Drabkin notes that such an individual must be prepared at times to be lonely and misunderstood. Surely Hess and Thudichum shared these fates.
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