Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
From his neat, gold-rimmed spectacles, reassuring pipe, and dignified classroom smile, Eugene DuBois is easily spotted as a professor. It is harder to guess that he is an outstanding physiologist whose researches made possible medicine's standard basal metabolism test...
Eugene DuBois (rhymes with new choice) got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...
...students insist that Eugene DuBois is as great a teacher as he is a physiologist. His educational secret, they say, is the old but sound one: he works with his students instead of over them...
...Argentina's Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay was made an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. In Boca Raton, Fla., the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association gave him its first award for distinguished research. Eminent U.S. scientists acclaimed the shy Argentine "the world's greatest living physiologist...