Chauncey D. Leake
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| Chauncey Depew Leake | |
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| Born | September 5, 1896 |
| Died | January 11, 1978 (aged 81) |
| Fields | Pharmacology |
Chauncey Depew Leake (September 5, 1896 – January 11, 1978) was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University.[1] He received his M.S. (1920) and Ph.D. (1923) from the University of Wisconsin in pharmacology and physiology.[2]
Leake discovered the anaesthetic divinyl ether and provided a translation of De motu cordis after being treated by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller.
In 1973 Leake was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Chauncey D. Leake (1976). "How I Am". Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 16: 1–16. doi:10.1146/annurev.pa.16.040176.000245.
- ^ Register of the Chauncey DePew Leake papers, 1912-1978 (Online Archives of California)
- ^ "Humanist Manifesto II". American Humanist Association. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
Literature [edit]
- Robinson, Victor: Victory Over Pain: A History of Anaesthesia.
External links [edit]
- 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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