title: [The early history of the negative feedback of estrogens on gonadotropins of the anterior hypophysis. The priority dispute between Dorothy Price and Walter Hohlweg. A contribution to self-deception in scientific priority claims].
abstract: From printed manuscripts of lectures held in August 1930 in London, we learn, that Carl R. Moore and Dorothy Price from Chicago, as well as Max Dohrn and Walter Hohlweg from Berlin, deduced, from different experiments, a negative feedback of oestrogens on the gonadotropic function of the anterior pituitary and--in general--a kybernetic system between pituitary and ovary. In 1975, both Price and Hohlweg claimed to be the discoverer of that system. A historical analysis reveals, that these priority claims are open to doubt.
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Simmer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Süss
mesh_terms: D004967:Estrogens / Q000266:history*; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006065:Gonadotropins, Pituitary / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000502:physiology*; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004967:Estrogens; D006065:Gonadotropins, Pituitary
vernacular_title: Zur Frühgeschichte des negativen Feedbacks der Ostrogene auf die Gonadotropine des Hypophysenvorderlappens. Der Prioritätsstreit zwischen Dorothy Price und Walter Hohlweg. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Selbsttäuschung bei wissenschaftlichen Prioritätsansprüchen.