Milton Oliver Lee

Milton Oliver Lee (1901-1978) was an American physiologist and editor.

Life

Milton Oliver Lee was born September 8, 1901, in Conneaut, Ohio. He earned BA (1922), MA (1923) and PhD (1926) in Physiology at Ohio State University, Columbus, with dissertation on Studies on the oestrus cycle in the rat. He was an instructor in physiology at Ohio State University 1923-1926.

From 1929 to 1942 he was a research associate the Memorial Foundation for Neuro-Endocrine Research, Harvard Medical School and later, 1946-1947, Associate Director.

Lee was interested in insect physiology, endocrine physiology, respiratory metabolism, and protein in metabolism.

For portrait circa 1947 see Figure 3 in Garrison, Bond & Bradshaw (2020). [1] He died in 1978.

Contributions

Lee served a chief executive officer of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and as a director of the American Physiological Society. He was managing editor for the Proceedings of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Md, 1947-65; managing editor, Journal of Physiology 1947-65.

Lee participated in the conversion of the American Documentation Institute into a membership organization in 1952. He was also Chairman of the Executive Committee for the important International Conference on Scientific Information in Washington, DC, in 1958, sponsored by American Documentation Institute, the [US] National Research Council, and the [US] National Science Foundation. [2]

Publications

Google Scholar lists numerous publications, nearly all relating to physiology. [3]

• Studies on the oestrous cycle in the rat. PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 1926. [4] Reprinted from Edocrinology 9, no 5 (Sept-Oct. 1925): 410-420 [5]; 10, no 1 (1926): 43-55 [6]; and American journal of physiology 78, no 2 (Oct 1926): 246-253. [7]
• "Literature Citations: How Biologists like Them." With others. AIBS [American Institute of Biological Sciences] bulletin 2, no 1 (1952): 18-19.
• "Preparing Literature Citations." With others. AIBS [American Institute of Biological Sciences] Bulletin 2, no. 2 (1952): 21-23.
• "Problems in financial management of scientific journals." Science 119, no. 3095 (1954): 530-532.
• "Scientific Information Please!." With C. I. Campbell. Science 125, no. 3260 (1957): 1229-1229. [8]
• Print reading system. With others. Patent CA824812 (A). European Patent Office. Oct. 7, 1969.

Offices

• Endocrine Society. Vice-President, 1927.
• American Physiological Society. Executive Secretary.
• American Documentation Institute. President, 1954.

Awards

A new building at FASEB headquarters in Bethesda, MD, was named the Lee Building in his honor, 1962.

Further reading

• "Milton O. Lee 1901-1978." The Physiologist 22, no 1 (1979): p.7-8. (Page 8 only is at [9])
• Garrison, Howard H., J. S. Bond & R. A. Bradshaw. "A brief history of FASEB and its programs and activities."

FASEB BioAdvances 2, no 6 (April 2020): 331-338. [10]

• Krauss, R. W. "The history of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology." In: Federation proceedings 46, no. 2 (1987): 243-250.
• Farkas-Conn, Irene. From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute—American Society for Information Science. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [11]

Papers

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