Sawyer, Charles H.

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Charles Henry Sawyer was born on January 24, 1915 in Ludlow, Vermont; AB, Middlebury College, 1937; Ph.D. in zoology, Yale University, 1941; on academic staffs in anatomy, Stanford and Duke Universities, 1941-51; professor of Anatomy, Duke University, 1950; professor of anatomy, UCLA School of Medicine (1951-85); served as chairman of the anatomy department, 1955-63; vice-president, American Association of Anatomists, 1968-70, and winner of its Henry Gray Award, 1984; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; won Award of Extraordinary Merit, UCLA Medical Alumni Association, 1990; his research interests included neuroendocrinology of reproduction; nervous control of pituitary secretion; the function, distribution, ontogenesis and properties of cholinesterases; and the effects of hormones on brain function.

From the guide to the Charles H. Sawyer Papers, 1915-1990, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)

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