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Francis Otto Schmitt
Francis Otto Schmitt
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up for the scientific curriculum at the recently founded, progressive Grover Cleveland High School.
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Frank eagerly accepted this offer and became ErIanger's only graduate student at the time. The physical and chemical basis of the nerve impulse was the focus of Erianger's research program, which he carried out in collaboration with two colleagues, the pharmacologist Herbert Gasser and the physiologist George Bishop.
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his biological racier, Frank locket! onto the cell membrane, whose structure Harvey White was studying in a laboratory next to Frank's as another critical aspect of the conundrum of the nerve impulse.
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John Highberger, Frank undertook a systematic analysis of the in vitro reconstitution of cross-striatec! fibrils from solutions of purifier!
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Marie Jakus, Frank pioneered the use of heavy metal stains in electron microscopy en c! publisher!
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The British zoologist John Z Young, whom he met while doing postgraduate work at
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But in the late 1950s, while visiting the Chilean Marine Biology Station at Vina clef Mar, Frank encountered the elephant of the squids, Dosidicus togas, whose axons reach diameters of up to 4 mm, in the Pacific waters of the HumboIcit Current. This preparation allowed!
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He set the course for the NRP that it folTowoc! for the next twenty years: to promote interclisciplinary attacks on neuroscientific problems, to organize interdisciplinary conference and comprehensive study programs, and to proselytize notable senior and promising junior scientists representing diverse clisciplines.
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scientists together to try to harmonize subjective tenets of faith with objective scientific finclings. His creep interest in how the brain works to procluce the mine!
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Uber den respiratorischen Quotienten des Nerven bet Ruhe und Tatigkeit. Biochem.
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The structure of the Schwann cell and its relation to axon in certain invertebrate nerve fibers.
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The Neurosciences: Fourth Study Program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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