Heinz Wolff (29 April 1928 - 15 December 2017)[1] FIEE. FIBES FRCP (Hon) FRSA[2] was a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He was known for the BBC television series The Great Egg Race.
Life and career[edit]
Wolff was born in Berlin, but aged 11 he moved to Britain with his family. The family arrived on the day World War II broke out. After school at the City of Oxford High School for Boys[3] he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford under Robert Gwyn Macfarlane,[3]and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, before going on to University College London, where he gained a first class honours degree in Physiology and Physics. Before going to UCL, he had been considered by Trinity College, Cambridge but was rejected twice because his understanding of Latin was too weak.[4]
In 1953 he married Joan, then a Staff Nurse, whom he met during work.
He spent much of his early career in bioengineering, a term which he himself coined in 1954[5] to take account of then recent advances in physiology. He became an honorary member of the European Space Agency in 1975, and in 1983 he founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, which is involved in biological research during weightless space-flight. Following retirement, he was Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel University. Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mirspace station.
Widowed in October 2014, he died from heart failure on 15 December 2017.[6] He was survived by his two sons.[6]=read more on wiki link
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