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Peter Nikolaus Witt

Peter Nikolaus Witt

www.DrPeterWitt.com

Archives housed at Special Collections, Western North Carolina University, Cullowhee NC
Archives housed at Website: www.DrPeterWitt.com

• Oct. 20, 1918, born Berlin Germany to Felix Herbert Witt and Emma Clara Josepha von Mendelssohn
• 1939 – 1941 University of Graz, Austria
• 1941 – 1944 University of Berlin, Germany
• 1946 M. D. University of Tübingen, Germany
• 1949, married Ingeborg Agathe Feiler
• 1949 – 1956 Assistant Pharmacology, Privat Dozent, University of Bern, Switzerland
• 1952-1953 Rockefeller Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts US
• 1952-1953 Recipient Lederle Med. Faculty Award
• 1953 Birth of daughter Elise Marie Witt
• 1956-1966 Associate Professor of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse NY US
• 1956 Birth of daughter Mary Enole Witt
• 1957-1959 Buergi award N.J. Bur. Research Neurology and Psychiatry
• 1962 Naturalized US citizen
• 1966 – 1986 Director of Research for North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh NC
• 1966 – 1986 Professor of Graduate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC
• 1966 – 1986 Professor of Graduate Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
• 1966 – 1986 Professor of Graduate Studies, Duke University, Durham NC

• Lifetime Member
  • Society of Pharmacology
  • German Pharmacology Society
  • Swiss Pharmacology Society
• Author
  • Die Wirkung von Substanzen auf den Netzbau der Spinne als biologischer Test, 1956
  • A Spider’s Web: Problems in Regulatory Biology w/Charles F. Reed & David B. Peakall, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
  • Spider Communication: Mechanisms and Ecological Significance w/ Jerome S. Rovner, Princeton Legacy Library
• Articles
  • National Geographic
  • New Scientist, Aug. 1996
  • Scientific American, Dec. 1954
  • Geo: The Earth Diary, Vol. 4, Jan. 1982
  • Omni, Nov. 1986
  • www.DrPeterWitt.com 1940-1989 scientific and human interest articles
• 1980 – 1990 Pete’s Cheese – production of goat cheese
• Sept. 15, 1998 died Raleigh NC