Name Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen | Books August and Marie Krogh | |
Born November 6, 1918Copenhagen, Denmark ( 1918-11-06 ) Died April 25, 2015(2015-04-25) (aged 96) Institutions Duke UniversityCase Western Reserve UniversityMDI Biological Laboratory Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
BODIL SCHMIDT NIELSEN - Versión en castellano
Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen (3 November 1918 – 27 April 2015) was a Danish-born American physiologist, who became the first woman president of the American Physiological Society in 1975.
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- BODIL SCHMIDT NIELSEN Versin en castellano
- BODIL SCHMIDT NIELSEN English version
- Biography
- Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award
- Selected works
- References
BODIL SCHMIDT NIELSEN - English version
Biography
Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1918, the youngest of four children of two eminent physiologists, the Nobel Laureate August Krogh and Marie Krogh. Her father, August Krogh received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1920 for his work on the regulation of muscle oxygen delivery via capillaries and arterioles.
In 1939, Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen married Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, a fellow physiologist, and received doctoral degrees in Dentistry, Odontology, and Physiology from the University of Copenhagen. Knut and Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen became a prominent physiology team at Duke University, but divorced in 1966. Bodil became Department Chair at Case Western Reserve University and later devoted her career full-time to research at MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine.
Schmidt-Nielsen died in April 2015 at the age of 96.
Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award
The Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award honors a member of the American Physiological Society who is judged to have made outstanding contributions to physiological research and demonstrated dedication and commitment to excellence in training of young physiologists.