Weiss, Paul Alfred

Weiss, Paul Alfred

▪ American biologist
born , March 21, 1898, Vienna, Austria
died Sept. 8, 1989, White Plains, N.Y., U.S.

      Austrian-born American biologist who did pioneering research on the mechanics of nerve regeneration, nerve repair, and cellular organization. During World War II Weiss and his colleagues developed and tested the first practical system of preserving human tissue for later surgical grafting.

      Weiss was trained at the University of Vienna. As assistant director of the Biological Research Institute of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (1922–29), he conducted analytical studies of cell movement, tissue organization, and organ formation, work that ultimately contributed to the understanding of the mechanics of wound healing.

      Weiss went to the United States to work in the Yale University Laboratory from 1931 to 1933. From Yale he moved to the University of Chicago (1933–54), but his research on tissue organization and development was interrupted during World War II, when, working for the U.S. government, he sought improved methods of surgical nerve repair. He developed a technique for the sutureless splicing of severed nerves, for which accomplishment he received a merit citation from the U.S. War and Naval departments. He became a U.S. citizen in 1939.

      As professor at the laboratory of developmental biology at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City (1954–64), Weiss continued his morphological studies and, with his laboratory associates, demonstrated that different organs' cells that have been randomly mixed and reassembled have the ability to reorganize themselves into miniature replicas of the donor organs. After two years (1964–66) as professor and dean of the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the designation of emeritus professor was conferred on Weiss by the Rockefeller University, New York City.

      Among his many works, including several hundred scientific papers, is Principles of Development (1939), a textbook in experimental embryology. In 1980 Weiss was awarded the National Science Medal.

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