Page, Irvine H. (Irvine Heinly), 1901-1991

Irvine H. Page, M.D., was born in 1901 in Indianapolis. A graduate of the Cornell University and Cornell Medical College, he interned at Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals in New York. After his internship, he pursued his interest in physical chemistry, first at Woods Hole and then, starting in 1928, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Munich where he started a department of brain chemistry. From 1931 to 1937 while working with Dr. Donald Van Slyke at the Rockefeller Institute Dr. Page began a life-long series of investigations on hypertension. He then served until 1945 as Director of the Laboratory for Clinical Research at Eli Lilly Company's research unit at City Hospital in Indianapolis. It was while he was there that Page and his colleagues discovered angiotensin. In 1945 Dr. Page left Indianapolis to form a new research division at the Cleveland Clinic where he remained for thirty-three years.

From the description of Irvine H. Page papers, 1917-1989. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14327906

From the guide to the Irvine H. Page, M.D. Papers, 1917-1989, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)