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== Life == | == 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. | '''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. | He 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). [https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fba.2020-00009#] | |||
He died in 1978. | He died in 1978. | ||
== Contributions == | == 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; and Associate Director | Foundation of Neuro-Endocrine Research, 1946-47. | |||
Lee participated in the democratization of the American Documentation Institute in 1952. | |||
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
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''FASEB BioAdvances'' 2, no 6 (April 2020): 331-338. [https://doi.org/10.1096/fba.2020-00009] | ''FASEB BioAdvances'' 2, no 6 (April 2020): 331-338. [https://doi.org/10.1096/fba.2020-00009] | ||
*Krauss, R. W. "The history of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology." In: ''Federation proceedings'' 46, no. 2 (1987): 243-250. | *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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200128134853/http://adi-asist.accessinn.com/] | |||
== Papers == | == Papers == | ||
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Revision as of 15:10, 19 April 2025
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.
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; and Associate Director | Foundation of Neuro-Endocrine Research, 1946-47.
Lee participated in the democratization of the American Documentation Institute in 1952.
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.
- 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. [7]
Papers
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