V. Everett Kinsey

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Victor Everett Kinsey (born 1909 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † July 23, 1978 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American eye researcher and biologist. He was director of the Institute for Eye Research at Oakland University .

life and work

Everett Kinsey graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in 1931. He then worked with Nicolas Rashevsky in mathematical biology and received his doctorate in Pittsburgh. Although he pursued basic research and no clinical ophthalmologist was, he was in 1940 by David Cogan in the Howe Laboratories of Harvard University fetched. In 1950 he became professor of ophthalmic chemistry at the School of Medicine of Wayne State University and deputy director of the Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit.

In 1968 he founded the Eye Research Institute (ERI) at Oakland University with Venkat N. Reddy and was its director. In 1975 he retired.

He researched the causes of premature retinopathy in newborns (caused by oxygen therapy, as proved by Arnall Patz ), researched the mechanisms of corneal transparency, formation of eye fluid and its abnormalities in glaucoma, fluid secretion and fluid dynamics in the eye, the mechanism of its formation of cataracts and the metabolism of the lens.

In 1957 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award , in 1952 the Proctor Medal of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology and he received the Warren Triennial Prize.

literature

  • VN Reddy, D. Cogan: In memoriam: Dr. V. Everett Kinsey 1909-1978 In: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science , Volume 18, 1979, pp. 1-7.
  • FW Newell: Obituary. V. Everett Kinsey, Ph.D., 1909-1978 . In: Am. J. Ophthalmol. , Volume 86, 1978, pp. 845-847.

Fonts (selection)

  • Spectral transmission of the eye to ultraviolet radiations . In: Arch. Ophthal. , Volume 39, 1948, pp. 508-513.
  • Transfer of ascorbic acid and related compounds across the blood-aqueous barrier . In: Am. J, ophthalmol. , Volume 30, 1947, pp. 1262-1266.
  • with L. Zacharias: Retrolental fibroplasia . In: J. Amer. Med. Assoc. , Volume 139, 1949, p. 572.
  • Chemical Composition and Osmotic Pressure of the Aqueous Humor and Plasma of the Rabbit . In: J. Gen. Physiol. , Volume 34, 1951, p. 389.
  • with FM Hemphill: Etiology of retrolental fibroplasia and preliminary report of cooperative study of retrolental fibroplasia . In: Trans Am Acad Ophthalmol Otolaryngol. , Volume 59, 1955 pp. 15-41.
  • Retrolental fibroplasia; cooperative study of retrolental fibroplasia and the use of oxygen . In: AMA Arch Ophthalmol. , Vol. 56, 1956, pp. 481-543.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at Oakland University 1978, pdf
  2. ^ Officially director of the Institute of Biological Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Kinsey, V. Everett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinsey, Victor Everett (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American eye researcher and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1978
Place of death Detroit , Michigan