ISE 2003 - Over 30 Years of Linking Electrocardiology Research Worldwide
The Czechoslovak Contribution
Ivan Ruttkay-Nedecky, Ljuba Bacharova
....... Professor of physiology at Charles University and Vice-President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Laufberger (1890–1986) had shifted his scientific interests to the human cardiac electric field with a very strong accent on instrumental development and computer aided diagnostic applications at the age of 62 years, .......
In his Laboratory of Graphical Methods of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, completed by a small hospital ward, he succeeded in attracting and leading an interdisciplinary team of first grade researchers. It was quite natural, that when he took with his coworkers a very active part in the scientific program of the 2nd Colloquium vectorcardiographicum in Starý Smokovec, his personality and continuing keen interest helped very much in fostering of our international collaboration. ........