Ralph W. Gerard

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Ralph Waldo Gerard (born October 7, 1900 in Harvey (Illinois) , † February 17, 1974 in Newport Beach ) was an American physiologist.

Gerard, whose father was a consulting engineer immigrated from England, studied physiology and chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1915 with a bachelor's degree in 1919 and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1921 and was professor of physiology at the university in 1921/22 of South Dakota . He then studied medicine at Rush Medical College (MD 1925). In 1926/27 he was on a grant from the National Research Council in Europe with the Nobel Prize winners Archibald Vivian Hill in London and Otto Fritz Meyerhof in Kiel. After returning he was back at the University of Chicago, where he was professor of physiology until 1952. From 1952 he was for three years professor of physiology and neurophysiology at the University of Illinois (College of Medicine) and from 1955 to 1963 professor of neurophysiology at the Mental Health Research Institute in Ann Arbor . From 1963 he was involved in the establishment of the University of California, Irvine , as dean of the graduate department. In 1970 he retired.

He dealt with a wide variety of topics from the metabolism and heat production of nerves (in his time at AV Hill), with the biological principles of schizophrenia, psychotropic drugs to behavioral research and social sciences. With Ling and Graham he developed an intracellular capillary microelectrode.

1951/52 he was president of the American Physiological Society . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1955), the National Academy of Sciences and since 1968 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He was an honorary doctor from the University of Maryland and Leiden University.

The Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience is awarded in his honor . He was one of the founders and Honorary President of the Society for Neuroscience .

Fonts

  • Unresting Cells, 1940
  • Body Functions, 1941
  • Methods in Medical Research, 1950
  • Food for Life, 1952
  • Mirror to Physiology, American Physiological Society 1958
  • with Cole: Psychopharmacology; the Problem of Evaluation 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerard, Ralph W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerard, Ralph Waldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Harvey (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1974
Place of death Newport Beach