Word: schack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMONG THE ASHES-William Schack-American Artists Group...
...Schack August Steenberg Krogh won a Nobel Prize in 1920 for his studies on the mechanism of blood supply to muscles, showing that a muscle's capillaries work in squads or shifts, most of them remaining closed when the muscle is resting. His great work on respiration, published in 1916, was on the mechanism of gas exchange (carbon dioxide for oxygen) in lungs. Last week he pointed out that animals make structural adaptations to the available oxygen supply as to any other environmental circumstance. Frogs and toads living in oxygen-deficient waters grow abnormally large, those in oxygen-abundant...