Name Graham Lusk | Role Physiologist | |
Died July 18, 1932, New York City, New York, United States Books The Elements of the Science of Nutrition, Food in war time Education Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Columbia University | ||
Prof Graham Lusk FRS(For) FRSE (15 February 1866 - 18 July 1932) was an American physiologist, and nutritionist. He graduated from Columbia University, and from University of Munich with a PhD. He was an expert on diabetes. He was profoundly deaf from the age of 30.
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Life
He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 15 February 1866, the son of Prof William Thomson Lusk of Long Island College of Medicine and his wife, Mary Hartwell Chittenden. He studied at Columbia School of Mines, graduating MA in 1887. He did further postgraduate studies in Germany under Prof Carl Voit at the University of Munich gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1891. In 1892 he began assisting in lectures at Yale Medical School and in 1895 became Professor of Physiology there.
In 1898 he moved to Bellevue Hospital, New York City and in 1909 to Cornell University where he remained until death. His papers are held at Cornell University.
In 1899 (largely due to his father's Scottish roots) he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Diarmid Noel Paton, John Clarence Webster, Sir John Batty Tuke and Alexander Bruce. In 1932 he was also elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
He retired in 1931 and died in New York on 18 July 1932.
Family
In 1899 he married May Woodbridge Tiffany, daughter of Charles C. Tiffany.