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 and a research associate at Harvard Medical School 1929-42.

He was interested in insect physiology, endocrine physiology, respiratory metabolism, and protein in metabolism. Portrait circa 1947: Figure 3 in [1] He died in 1978.

Contributions

He served as executive officer and managing editor for the Proceedings of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Md, 1947-65. He was managing editor, Journal of Physiology 1947-65.

• Associate Director | Foundation of Neuro-Endocrine Research, 1946-47

According to Farkas-Conn, Lee was "an outstanding scientist and director of the FASEB."

Publications

• Studies on the oestrous cycle in the rat. PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 1926. [2] Reprinted from Edocrinology 9, no 5 (Sept-Oct. 1925): 410-420 [3]; 10, no 1 (1926): 43-55 [4]; and American journal of physiology 78, no 2 (Oct 1926): 246-253. [5]

Offices

• Endocrine Society | Vice-Pres., 1927
• 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

• 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. [6]

• Krauss, R. W. "The history of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology." In: Federation proceedings 46, no. 2 (1987): 243-250.

Papers

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