Heinz Otto Schild


Heinz Otto Schild , was a pharmacologist now known for the development of the Schild plot.

Life

H.O. Schild was born into a Jewish family in what was Fiume, Austria-Hungary, and is now Rijeka, Croatia. During the rise of fascism he was schooled in Munich then Budapest. He studied medicine in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, with later studies focused on Pharmacology. In 1932s he moved to England to work in Henry Dale's laboratory, working also with John Gaddum.
In 1937 he married Mireille Madeline Haquin.
As an enemy alien in the UK before the Second World War, he was interred during 1939-1940 on the Isle of Man. However, his release from the camp was eventually secured by appeals from the scientific community; he stayed in Britain and gained British citizenship in 1948.

Work

He is particularly known for: