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Eric Glendinning Ball
Eric Glendinning Ball
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BUCHANAN AND A BAIRD HASTINGS DWRING HIS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, Eric Glendinning Ball witnessed and participated in the maturation of biochemistry as a major biological science in the United States.
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Undoubtedly, with maturity, these new trails became scientific ones. Upon returning to the United States, the Ball family lived for a while in Stony Creek, Connecticut, and then moved to Lansford, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the anthracite coalmining district.
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Although the results of these experiments never reached publication, the year's work gave Eric the experience he needed to launch a career of research in science. Although he had planned to continue graduate work for his doctorate, possibly in physical chemistry, following award of his master's degree, Eric took a job in a paper factory to replenish his financial resources.
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By this time, Eric tract registered as a graduate student in the Department of Physiological Chemistry and was well on his way to completing his doctoral dissertation under Wright Wilson. The results of his work, "A Study of the Estimation of Chloride in Blooct and Serum," were published in 1928 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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, lapacol, lomatiol, and various other hydroxynaphthoquinones. Early in his academic career, Eric established a lasting connection with the Marine Biological Station at Woocts Hole, Massachusetts.
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These summers at Woods Hole ultimately led to Eric's election as a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1942 and, for a term (1953-1958) , of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
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In recognition of these achievements, Eric received the 1940 Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry from the American Chemical Society. In 194S, he was awardecl an honorary doctoral degree from his alma matter, Haverford College.
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Eric was approached to head the Department of Biochemistry at Western Reserve Medical School with the charge of cleveloping a new medical curriculum that integrated the preclinical medical sciences. He refused the offer, but since this new approach to medical education was attractive to him, President Conant of Harvard University proposed that Eric develop a comparable program for graduate students as chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences.
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The total enrollment of graduate students in the division tract risen from about five to nearly fifty. Some $17,000 was available annually for fellowships, and a new integrated course was inaugurated with the aid of a grant from the Commonwealth Fund for $200,000 for a three-year period.
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He was a long-term consultant to the Eli Lilly Company and served in a number of editorial capacities on the fournal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biochemical Preparations. He was a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Biological Chemists, American Chemical Society, Biochemical Society of Great Britain, Society of General Physiologists, and the Enctocrine Society.
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At the time of his death on September 5, 1979, they tract been married happily for nearly fifty-two years. In the conclusion of the memorial minute published in the Harvard Gazette, it was stated that "His colleagues and his former graduate students mourned his passing, but celebratec]
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The minute appeared on June 27, 1980, in the Harvard Gazette (vol.
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(hon.) , Haverford College 1926-1928 Assistant, School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl vania 1929-1930 National Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Medical School 1930-1933 Instructor in Physiological Chemistry, Johns Hop kins Medical School 1932 International Physiological Congress Fellow, Rome 1933-1940 Associate in Physiological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical School 1937-1938 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Institut fur Zell Physiologie, Berlin-Dahlem 1940 - 1941 Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School 1940 Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry 1941-1946 Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School 1941-1945 1942-1970 1943-1946, 1958-1959 1944-1946 Official Investigator on two OSRD contracts Trustee, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Acting Head, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School Secretary, Biochemical Panel, Board for Coordina tion of Malarial Studies, Washington Visiting Professor, University of Brazil Medical School 1945 Ordem du Cruzero do Sul (Order of the Southern Cross, Brazil)
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Visiting Profes sor, Oswaldo Cruz Institute Rio de {aneiro Fuller Albright Lecture, Peripatetic Club MEMBERSHIPS National Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Society of Biological Chemists American Chemical Society Biochemical Society of Great Britain Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Society of General Physiologists Endocrine Society Sigma Xi Alpha Omega Alpha (hon.)
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Chem., 102:691-719. Hemolytic action of silver occurring as an impurity in chemically pure sodium chloride.
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On the occurrence of iron-porphyrin compounds and succinic dehydrogenase in marine organisms possessing the copper blood pigment hemocyanin.
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A rapid test for distinguishing human from cow's milk based upon a difference in their xanthine oxidase content.
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VIII. Factors affecting the growth of Plasmodium knowlesi in vitro.
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The intracellular distribution of cytochrome components and of oxidative enzyme activity in rat liver.
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In: Enzymes: Units of Biological Structure and Function (Proceedings of the Henry Ford Hospital International Symposium)
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V The effect of a growth hormone preparation and insulin on the oxygen consumption, glucose uptake, and lactic acid production.
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On the action of hormones which accelerate the rate of oxygen consumption and fatty acid release in rat adipose tissue in vitro.
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Net gas exchanges and oxygen consumption. In: Handbook of Physiology (Sectiorl 5, Adipose Tissue)
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Quantitative aspects of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis during arousal from hibernation.
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Acta, 187:48691. 1970 Some aspects of fatty acid metabolism in brown adipose tissue.
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