Oral history interview with Francis Otto Schmitt, 1982. 1982

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Oral history interview with Francis Otto Schmitt, 1982. 1982

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65287379

Schmitt discusses his early interest in science and his decision to study physiology with Joseph Erlanger. He talks of his teachers and colleagues at Washington University, including Evarts A. Graham, Helen Tredway Graham, Herbert Gasser, George Bishop, Philip A. Shaffer, Carl Cori, and Viktor Hamburger. Schmitt describes Erlanger and Gasser's research on action potentials that led to their receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. There is also discussion of some of Schmitt's research on kidney function with Harvey Lester White, his research on the excitability of heart muscle, and polarization optics.

Transcript : 44 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassette (ca. 92 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 92 min.) : analog.

Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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