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HERMANN RAHN
HERMANN RAHN
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SO WROTE THE SIXTEEN-YEAR-QED Hermann Rahn to his closest frienc!
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organic chemistry with Professor WalIach (later to become Nobel laureate in chemistry)
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to Lansing in 1908 to join the Department of Bacteriology uncler Professor Marshall, but she was soon assignee! to Otto Rahn as a research en c!
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, made a goodwill tour of German universities, and he became interested in Otto Rahn's work on the physical properties of milk products, noting that no comparable department of dairy physics existed in the United States. Unbeknownst to
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way of life. The wilclerness of the Finger Lake district of upper New York state was in contrast to the manicures!
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in bircis. His discovery in 1937 that viviparous snakes develop a primitive placenta analogous to the mammalian organ won him a National Research Council postcloctoral fellowship to work in reproductive physiology with Frederick Hisaw at the Harvarc!
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him to stucly reproductive behavior en c! sexual dimorphism of the sage grouse, when Hermann spoke of the elaborate courtship ciances of these bircis, you listenec!
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other colleagues was so close that it is clifficult for a biographer to separate the relative contributions macle by each incliviclual. It is reasonable to suppose, however, that Fenn's quantitative biophysical approach awakened latent talents in Hermann Rahn that macle him a full partner in the enterprise en c!
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concepts clevelopec! to investigate respiratory gas exchange during acute exposure to low barometric pressures (altitucle)
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the center of gravity of the Rochester school of respiratory physiology. In the years to come he was to attract more than 100 collaborators from some twelve countries to work on such diverse topics as respiratory gas exchange in cliving insects, the regulation of pH in polkilotherms, the role of nitrogen in the absorption of gas pockets in animals en c!
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Using a simple but ingenious crevice for collecting alveolar samples underwater, Rahn and Hong were able to chart the changes of alveolar gas composition as a function 1 of time en c! pressure cluring clives by specially trainee!
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degree from Yonsei University in 1965. At this stage of his scientific career, Rahn's important contributions to respiratory physiology were also recognized by his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the presidency of the American Physiological Society, and in 1968 to the National Academy of Sciences.
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to provicle sufficient conductance for respiratory gases but without fatal loss of water vapor? What are the relations between pore area, thickness of shell, en c!
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Here the total amount of water lost during incubation has been plotted against the initial mass of the egg. The graph includes data obtained from sixty-five species of eggs ranging in size from 1 gram to 500 grams, with incubation times ranging from eleven to seventy days.
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he received distinguished service awards from several of them. However, his primary allegiance was to the American Physiological Society (APS)
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Rahn was especially vulnerable to this development because his research on gas exchange at high en c! low barometric pressures had important applications to both clinical and military problems.
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a three-day meeting of 800 members of the American Physiological Society in Buffalo, he was walking back to the lab with drooping shoulders, laden with shopping bags full of
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by the Office of Naval Research for Rahn's studies of underwater physiology was renames! "The Hermann Rahn Laboratory of Environmental Physiology." In the spring of 1990 Rahn learner!
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Penn," in Biographical Memoirs, vol.
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262 S E L E C T E D 1938-39 1960 1963-64 1964 1965 1966 1968 1971 1971-74 1973 1977 1980 1981 1981 1985 B I O G RA P H I C A L EMOIRS AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS National Research Council fellow Harvey Society lecturer President, American Physiological Society Doctor of medicine, Honoris Causa, University of Paris Honorary LL.D., Yonsei University, Seoul American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Vice-president, International Union of Physiological Sciences Albert Behnke Award, Undersea Medical Society Honorary D.Sc., University of Rochester Distinguished professor, State University of New York at Buffalo 1976-77 Alexander von Humboldt Award and visiting professor, University of Gottingen Painton Award, Cooper Ornithological Society Profesor honoraria, Universidad Peruana, Lima Doctor of medicine, Honoris Causa, University of Berne Elliott Cones Award, American Ornithological Union Chancellor Norton Medal, State University of New York at Buffalo Dedication of the Hermann Rahn Laboratory for Environmental Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Fenn. Alveolar gas changes during breathholding.
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157:445-62. A concept of mean alveolar air and the ventilation-blood flow relationships during pulmonary gas exchange.
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Kang. Diving pattern, lung volumes and alveolar gas of the Korean diving women (Ama)
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Respiratory gas exchange by the avian embryo. Respir.
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Incubation water loss, shell conductance and pore dimensions in Adele Penguin eggs. Polar Biol.
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