Birdsey Renshaw

Birdsey Renshaw

Birdsey Renshaw (born October 10, 1911 in Connecticut , † November 23, 1948 in Portland , Connecticut) was an American neuroscientist and the discoverer of the Renshaw cells named after him and the Renshaw inhibition .

Life

Renshaw was the son of Raemer Rex and Laura Birdsey Renshaw and had a younger sister, Raine. In 1936 he completed his medical studies at Harvard Medical School and received his doctorate in 1938 in Alexander Forbes' research group on the measurement of electrical potentials in the brain using microelectrodes . He then joined Herbert Gasser's research group at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research .

In 1938 he married Janet Card Hayes. and had two sons, Thomas Hayes Renshaw and Bruce Birdsey Renshaw .

He died of polio in 1948 after a short illness .

Publications

• The Electrical Potentials Recorded in the Brain with Microelectrodes . 1938 (English, dissertation).
• Miscellaneous toxicological studies . In: National Defense Research Committee , Division 9 (Ed.): Chemical warfare agents and related chemical problems (Parts I-II) . 1946, p. 382-385 (English, nih.gov ).
• Mechanisms in production of cutaneous injuries by sulfur and nitrogen mustards . In: National Defense Research Committee, Division 9 (ed.): Chemical warfare agents and related chemical problems (Parts III-VI) . 1946, p. 479-518 (English, nih.gov ).
• Central effects of centripetal impulses in axons of spinal ventral roots . In: Journal of Neurophysiology . tape 9 , no. 3 , May 1, 1946, pp. 190–205 , doi : 10.1152 / jn.1946.9.3.191 (English).

literature

• Alexander Forbes: Birdsey Renshaw: 1911-1948 . In: Journal of Neurophysiology . tape 12 , no. 1 , January 1, 1949, p. 81 , doi : 10.1152 / jn.1949.12.1.81 (English).
• Levent Sarikcioglu and Arzu Utuk: Birdsey Renshaw (1911–1948) and his eponym . In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry . tape 80 , 2009, p. 79 , doi : 10.1136 / jnnp.2008.159533 (English).
• Renshaw . In: Peter Reuter (Ed.): Springer Lexicon Medicine . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20412-1 , pp. 1839 (right column).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} New York - Bronx - ED 3-960: Birdsey Renshaw . In: United States Census 1930 . 1930, p. 5A ( familysearch.org - free after registration).
2. ↑ Certificate number 11976 . In: Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Portland: polio death of a 38-year-old scientist ... In: Walla Walla Union Bulletin . November 25, 1948, p. 17 (English, newspaperarchive.com - free OCR version).
4. ↑ Ames - Story - Birdsey Renshaw . In: Iowa States Census 1915 . 1915, p. A329–313 ( familysearch.org - free after registration).
5. ^ Massachusetts - Norfolk - Brookline - ED 163: Birdsey Renshaw . In: United States Census 1920 . January 6, 1920, p. 6B ( familysearch.org - free after registration).
6. ^ New York - Bronx - ED 31-1230: Birdsey Renshaw . In: United States Census . 1940, p. 9A ( archives.gov [JPG; 1.4 MB ]).
7. ↑ Birdsey Renshaw. In: wikitree.com. Retrieved July 8, 2020 . 
8. ^ Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach : Renshaw, Birdsey . In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, Boston 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-097694-6 , pp. 1238 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110976946 .