Russell Henry Chittenden
Russell Henry Chittenden (born February 18, 1856 in New Haven , Connecticut, † December 26, 1943 in New Haven , Connecticut) was an American physiologist and chemist (physiological chemistry). He is considered the father of biochemistry in the USA.
Chittenden, whose father ran a factory, studied medicine at Yale University (Sheffield Scientific School) from 1872 , graduated in physiological chemistry in 1875 and continued his studies in Heidelberg in 1878/79. In 1880 he received his doctorate at Yale (the work was supervised by Wilhelm Kühne in Heidelberg) and from 1882 he was professor of physiological chemistry at Yale. In 1889 he became director of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and in 1922 he was retired. From 1900 he was also professor of physiology at the Yale School of Medicine. From 1898 to 1903 he also lectured in physiological chemistry at Columbia University .
In 1875 he was the first to detect the amino acid glycine in the body (in the muscle of mussels), dealt with protein metabolism (enzymes that split proteins, daily protein requirement of humans, which he set at 50 grams per day, etc.) and physiology digestion, nutritional issues and toxicology (including alcohol and metals).
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1912), the National Academy of Sciences (1890) and the American Philosophical Society . He was a founding member of the American Physiological Society in 1887 and was its president from 1895 to 1904.
His home in New Haven is a National Historic Landmark .
Fonts
- The development of physiological chemistry 1930
- Digestive Proteolysis and Physiological Economy in Nutrition, New York 1905
- more books by Russell Henry Chittenden in the Internet Archive
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989
- Hubert Bradford Vickery, Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, pdf
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Russell H. Chittenden. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chittenden, Russell Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Physiologist and Chemist (Physiological Chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Haven (Connecticut) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1943 |
| Place of death | New Haven (Connecticut) |