Frederick Lee Hisaw

Frederick Lee Hisaw (born August 23, 1891 in Jolly , Missouri , † December 3, 1972 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American zoologist and endocrinologist .

Hisaw earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in 1916 . After a brief membership in the faculty of the University of Mississippi , he served as a soldier in the First World War . He then received a position as an Assistant Professor at the Kansas State Agricultural College . Through his work there with gender differences in pocket rats , which should be controlled as pests, he came to research the function of the ovaries . In 1924 Hisaw obtained a Ph.D. from Michael Frederic Guyer , Walter J. Meek and Arthur Sperry Pearse at the University of Wisconsin with his work The influence of the ovary on the resorption of the pubic bones of the pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius (Shaw) . In 1929 he was given a full professorship there. In 1935 he moved to Harvard University , where he was last Fisher Professor of Natural History .

Hisaw studied the endocrinology of reproduction . He made a significant contribution to understanding the sexual cycle in mammals . He concentrated on the gonadotropic effect of the hormones in the pituitary gland and used, among other things, domestic guinea pigs as a model organism . He identified and named the hormone relaxin and was instrumental in identifying FSH and LH .

Hisaw became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1925 , became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936, a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1940, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1947 . Frederick Lee Hisaw was Vice President of the Endocrine Society in 1949/50 , the highest honor (Medal of The Endocrine Society) he received in 1956. In 1952 he received the American Gynecological Society's highest award , its gold medal.

His students included Samuel L. Leonard , Roy O. Greep , Edwin B. Astwood , William Robert Carroll, and Terrell H. Hamilton .

literature

• Frederick Lee Hisaw (1891-1972). In: Endocrinology. 93, 1973, p. 273, doi : 10.1210 / endo-93-2-273 .
• Adolph Friedman: The Contributions of Frederick Hisaw. In: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 88, 2003, p. 524, doi : 10.1210 / jc.2002-021457 .
• Hisaw, Frederick Lee ( limited preview in the Google book search) In: Gerhard Bettendorf (Ed.): To the history of endocrinology and reproductive medicine. Springer-Verlag, 2013. pp. 232-233, ISBN 9783642791529

Web links

• Life dates, publications and academic pedigree of Frederick Lee Hisaw at academictree.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Frederick L. Hisaw. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed February 10, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Frederik L. Hisaw. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed February 10, 2019 .