Mehrtens, Susan E., 1945-

The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical and genetic research center in Bar Harbor, Maine, was founded by Clarence Cook Little in 1929. It is the world's leading non-profit supplier of genetically identical mice used in medical research.

From the description of Jackson Laboratory oral history collection, 1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466331

Francis Otto Schmitt (1903-1995) earned his A.B (1924) from Washington University and Ph.D. (Physiology 1927) from Washington University School of Medicine. His first faculty post was at Washington University where he became assistant professor of zoology at Washington University in 1929, associate professor in 1934, professor in 1938, and head of the zoology department in 1940. He spent the rest of his career at MIT's Biology department (1941-1969), and his retirement years at the Neuroscience Research Program. F. O. Schmitt was one of the founders of biophysics in the 1930s and neuroscience in the 1960s. Dr. Schmitt's research interest was in molecular neurobiology. --Am. Men & Women of Science, 1986, v. 6, p. 515; "Francis Otto Schmitt, November 23, 1903 - October 3, 1995," BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS, National Academy of Sciences, http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/fschmitt.html

From the description of Finding aid to the Dr. Francis O. Schmitt Oral history Collection papers, 1986 1986 (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 183898512