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Donald Henry Barron
BornApril 9, 1905
Died1993
Alma materCarleton College (B.A.)
Iowa State College (M.S.)
Yale University (Ph.D.)
SpouseAnnette LaCourciere Barron[1]
ChildrenAnnette McCarthy[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsreproductive biology
InstitutionsYale University
University of Florida

Donald Henry Barron (1905-1993) was an American reproductive biologist who was born in Flandreau, South Dakota and received his B.A. in Chemistry at Carleton College, his M.S. in Botany at Iowa State College and his Ph.D. at Yale University. In March 1933, he joined Edgar D. Adrian's laboratory in Cambridge University where he investigated the Slow potential wave in spinal cord collaborated with Bryan Matthews[2] and received an honorary M.A. degree from there in 1936.[1]

Barron and his family to return to the United States in 1940. From 1943 to 1969, he worked at Yale and then moved to University of Florida until he retired, enjoyed a distinguished career as a biologist, anatomist, neurophysiologist, and fetal-placental physiologist.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "IN MEMORIAM Donald Henry Barron, 1905-1993". Biology of Reproduction. 50 (3): 714. 1994. doi:10.1093/biolreprod/50.3.714.
  2. ^ "Bryan Matthews". Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 293 (6545): 511. 1986. doi:10.1136/bmj.293.6545.511. PMC 1341157.