Harvard Fatigue Laboratory records, 1916-1952 (inclusive), 1941-1947 (bulk).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Henderson, Lawrence Joseph, 1878-1942

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Henderson graduated from Harvard in 1898 and taught biological chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Lawrence Joseph Henderson, 1905-1945 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973063 Lawrence Josepeh Henderson established the Fatigue Lab at Harvard Business School in 1927 to discover physiological norms for human biological processes and to study the physiological changes that create fatigue in workers. The lab continued to operate until ...

United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development

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United States. War Manpower Commission

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History Roy Pearson was a labor representative from the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, or IUMSWA, Local No. 9 in San Pedro, California. The IUMSWA was a labor union that represented all shipyard workers. Established in the 1930’s, the Congress of Industrial Relations, or C.I.O, was a federation that organized industrial unions, such as the IUMSWA, in the United States and Canada. The C.I.O. merged ...

Keys, Ancel, 1904-2004

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Ancel Keys, B.A. (1925), M.A. (1928), Ph.D. (1930) University of California. Professor of physiology and founder of the Division of Epidemiology in School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Developed the K-ration for the War Department during World War II; research on human starvation guided relief workers in post-war Europe; conducted research in the areas of cholesterol and heart disease, leading to the conclusion that higher fat diets led to increased cholesterol le...

United States. Joint Research and Development Board

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Dill, David Bruce, 1891-....

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David Bruce Dill was a preeminent American scientist in the area of human physiology and the environment. He conducted experimental research at high altitude, in the desert, and in context of work / exercise to determine the effect on the human body. Dill held research and teaching appointments at Harvard University (1927-1947), U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratory (1947-1961), Indiana University (1961-1966) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1966-1976). Dill died in 1986...

Forbes, William H., 1902-1995.

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William H. Forbes (1902-1995), Ph.D., 1931, Cambridge University, England; MD, 1952, Johns Hopkins University, was a researcher specializing in environmental physiology, including respiration and metabolism, and a Harvard School of Public Health educator. Between 1930 and 1947, Forbes worked for the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, a laboratory of human physiology at the Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts. William Hathaway Forbes was born in Milton, Massachusetts ...