Chauncey D. Leake
Chauncey Depew Leake | |
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 Leake (left) with Morris Fishbein | |
| Born | Chauncey Depew Leake September 5, 1896 Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 1978 (aged 81) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pharmacology |
Chauncey Depew Leake (September 5, 1896 – January 11, 1978) was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist.
Early life
[edit]Leake was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.[1] At age 10, he was treated by the ophthalmologist Karl Koller. At that time, Koller also introduced Leake to the anesthetic effects of cocaine.[2]
Education
[edit]Leake received a bachelor's degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University.[3] He received his M.S. (1920) and Ph.D. (1923) from the University of Wisconsin in pharmacology and physiology.[4]
Career
[edit]Leake discovered the anesthetic divinyl ether. He authored over 400 publications.[5] One of his publications was a translation of the 1628 physiological work De motu cordis (On the Motion of the Heart) from Latin to English.
Leake became a fulltime university administrator from 1942, first at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and from 1962 at Ohio State University.[5]
In 1973, Leake was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.[6]
He was awarded the UCSF medal in 1975.[7]
A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Leake married the microbiologist Elisabeth Wilson in 1921, and they collaborated for many years. They had two sons and remained married until her death in 1977.[9][5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Staff. A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980 Archived 2011-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, p. 257. Institute for Advanced Study, 1980. Accessed November 22, 2015. "Leake, Chauncey Depew 50s, 52s HS, History of Science & Medicine Born 1896 Elizabeth, NJ."
- ↑ Patil, Popat N. (2012). Discoveries in Pharmacological Sciences. World Scientific. p. 198-199.
- ↑ Chauncey D. Leake (1976). "How I Am". Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 16: 1–16. doi:10.1146/annurev.pa.16.040176.000245. PMID 779611.
- ↑ Register of the Chauncey DePew Leake papers, 1912-1978 (Online Archives of California)
- 1 2 3 Altman, Lawrence K. (January 13, 1978). "Dr. Chauncey D. Leake Dies at 81; Pharmacologist and Administrator: Development of Amphetamines Popularizer of Science Gave Up Research". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Humanist Manifesto II". American Humanist Association. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ "UCSF Medal". Office of the Chancellor. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
- ↑ "Chauncey D. Leake Papers 1921-1976". National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Leake, Chauncey D. (April 1, 1976). "How I Am". Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 16 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1146/annurev.pa.16.040176.000245. ISSN 0362-1642. PMID 779611.
Literature
[edit]- Robinson, Victor: Victory Over Pain: A History of Anaesthesia (1947).
External links
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/web/20081010212901/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/leake.html
- The old Egyptian medical papyri Logan Clendening lecture on the history and philosophy of medicine, University of Kansas, 1952. Full-text PDF.
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