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(Circulation Research. 2007;101:431.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.

In Memoriam

Rudi Busse (1943–2007)

Ingrid Fleming, Ulrich Pohl

From the Institute für Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, and Institute of Physiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Correspondence to Ingrid Fleming, Institute für Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Theodor Stern Kai 7, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. E-mail fleming@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Rudi Franz Eckhard Busse was born on November 21, 1943 in Bayreuth (home of Richard Wagner), in south East Germany, the youngest of four siblings. Rudi studied medicine and received his MD in 1971. After his internship, however, he realized that his true interests were in basic science, and not in clinical routine. Thus, in 1973 Rudi joined the Department of Physiology at Universität Erlangen-Nnberg, where the focus was on hemodynamics. The move was a real challenge for Rudi, as his basic education was "humanistic" and had focused on a thorough training in Latin and Greek, rather than complex mathematics. Encouraged and supported by his early mentor, Erik Wetterer, he began working on the mechanisms governing vascular mechanics and the related hemodynamics and pulse transmission characteristics of arteries. Only four years after joining the Department of Physiology, Rudi submitted his "habilitation" thesis entitled, "A new theoretical and experimental way of determining the propagation coefficient and visco-elastic behavior of arteries in situ". Although the topic sounded rather dry, if not dull, and the document itself was not easy reading, Rudi’s anecdotes on how some of the measurements were made (particularly the first measurements of the human carotid pulse) were hair-raising. Characteristic of the late 1970s, training in the basic sciences was considered part of a more universal education, and Erik Wetterer not only sparked Rudi’s interests in hemodynamics, but also in antique Turkmenian carpets. Rudi remained an avid collector throughout his life.

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