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Institutions
  
Duke University

Name
  
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

Spouse
  
Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen


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Born
  
September 24, 1915 (
1915-09-24
)

Died
  
January 25, 2007, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Education
  
University of Copenhagen (1946)

Notable awards
  
International Prize for Biology

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, International Prize for Biology

Books
  
Animal physiology, Scaling - why is animal si, How animals work, The camel's nose, Desert Animals: Physiolog

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (September 24, 1915 – January 25, 2007) was a prominent figure in the field of comparative physiology and Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University.

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Background

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Scaling functions to body size theories and facts

Born in Trondheim, Norway. He was educated in Oslo and Copenhagen. He became a student in the laboratory of August Krogh in Copenhagen in 1937. Schmidt-Nielsen moved to the United States, where he studied at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Career

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Schmidt-Nielsen published over 275 scientific papers and wrote the authoritative text on animal physiology. Schmidt-Nielsen is widely recognized as having made significant contributions to ecophysiology. He has been referred to as "the father of comparative physiology and integrative biology" and "one of the all-time greats of animal physiology". He came to Duke University in 1952 and became a James B. Duke Professor in the Department of Biology.

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In 1980, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was elected President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. He was the founding editor of News in Physiological Sciences. He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (1973), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1979), the Royal Society of London, the French Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences. Next to the Biological Science building on Duke's campus is a statue of Schmidt-Nielson looking at a camel, honoring his more than twenty years of work studying and dispelling myths on how camels withstand the harsh desert environment.

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen In Memoriam Knut SchmidtNielsen September 24 1915

He was recipient of the 1992 International Prize for Biology awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Books

  • 1972 How Animals Work Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-09692-8
  • 1979 Desert animals: Physiological problems of heat and water Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-23850-0
  • 1984 Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important? Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-31987-0
  • 1997 Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57098-5
  • 1998 The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist Washington, D.C: Island Press. ISBN 978-1-55963-512-7

    • References

    Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Wikipedia
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