Person
Bass, Ludvik (1931? - 2022)
- Born
- 1931?
Prague, Czechoslovakia - Died
- 23 October 2022
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician
Summary
Ludvik Bass was a mathematician whose areas of research included applied mathematics and mathematical biology. Early research was on the mathematics of liquid junctions and ionic interactions in electrolytes. Between 1954 and 1963 he taught at Trinity College, Dublin, the School of Chemistry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry. In 1965 he migrated to Australia, taking up a position of Reader in Mathematics at the University of Queensland. He retired in 1994 after 27 years as Professor of Mathematics at the University. In 1975 he began an extremely productive collaboration, which extended for 45 years, on aspects of drug elimination by the liver with Danish physiologists N. Tygstrup, K. Winkler, and S. Keiding. This resulted in a large number of influential publications. Bass 's contributions included the "distributed model" of hepatic elimination, and in 1987 a new nonlinear mechanism for pattern formation in the liver. Most recently, he returned to earlier research on modelling of ionic interactions, producing a series of papers with colleagues.
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Chronology
- 1954
- Education - PhD, Universität Wien, Austria
- 1954 - 1961?
- Career position - Postdoctoral researcher, Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS)
- 1959
- Award - MA (honoris causa), Trinity College, Dublin
- 1965
- Life event - Migrated to Australia
- 1965 - 1967
- Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1967 - 1994
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1980 - 2022
- Award - Member, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters (MRDASL)
- 1994 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland
- 1994
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Bass, L. and Bracken, A. J., 'Emergent behaviour in electrodiffusion: Planck's other quanta', Reports on mathematical physics, 73 (1) (2014), 66-57, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4877(14)60032-x. Details
- Bass, L. and Moore, W. J., 'The role of protons in nerve conduction', Progress in biophysical and molecular biology, 27© (1973), 143-71, https://doi.org/10.1016/0079-6107(73)90006-0. Details
- Bass, Ludvik and Schrödinger, Erwin, 'Must the photon mass be zero?', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 232 (1188) (1955), 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1955.0197. Details
- Green, H. S., Bracken, A. J. and Bass, L, 'Harmonic functions satisfying a radiation boundary condition', Computers and mathematics with applications, 22 (2) (1991), 23-38, https://doi.org/10.1016/0898.1221(91)90039-7. Details
- Munk, O. L., Keiding, S. and Bass, L., 'Capillaries within compartments: microvascular interpretation of dynamic positron emission tomography data', Journal of theoretical biology, 225 (1) (2003), 127-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00227-3. Details
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Created: 30 September 2025