William Francis Ganong Jr.
William Francis Ganong Jr. | |
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| Born | July 6, 1924 |
| Died | December 23, 2007 (aged 83) |
| Education | Harvard Medical School |
| Occupation | Scientist, educator, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Jackson |
| Children | William Francis III, Susan, Anna, James |
| Parent(s) | William Francis Ganong & Anna Hobbet Ganong |
William Francis Ganong Jr. (July 6, 1924[1] – December 23, 2007[2]) was a Harvard-educated American physiologist, and was one of the first scientists to trace how the brain controls important internal functions of the body.
Life[]
William Francis "Fran" Ganong Jr. was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, the son of renowned botanist and Smith College professor William Francis Ganong Sr. and geologist Anna Hobbet Ganong.[3] Dr. Ganong died in Albany, California at the age of 83, after living with prostate cancer for 17 years.[4]
Career[]
Dr. Ganong was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center.
He was one of the discoverers of Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome, an electrical abnormality that affects heart rhythm.[5]
Dr. Ganong became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1955. Three years later, he moved to the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) to help start a research program in physiology. In the course of his research, he discovered that blood pressure and fluid balance – the salt and water levels in the body – are regulated by hormones from the adrenal gland and the kidney, a key finding for developing ways to treat hypertension.[3]
He was chairman of the physiology department at UCSF from 1970 to 1987, and served as the 50th president of The American Physiological Society, from 1977 to 1978.[6] He retired in 1999, but continued research in neuroendocrinology,[3] becoming the Lange Professor of Physiology Emeritus at UCSF.[7]
Publications[]
Dr. Ganong was the author of the influential textbook Review of Medical Physiology, first published in 1963 and, as of 2019, in its 26th edition.[8] It has been translated into 18 languages.
References[]
- ^ [1] Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine 2002 bio
- ^ "Leading UCSF neuroendocrinologist and medical leader dies". Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c He preferred to be called "Fran". Dennis Hevesi (January 12, 2008). "W. F. Ganong, 83, Expert in Brain's Control of Body, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "William F. Ganong - memorial service at UCSF". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ Lown B, Ganong WF, Levine SA (May 1952). "The syndrome of short P-R interval, normal QRS complex and paroxysmal rapid heart action". Circulation. 5 (5): 693–706. doi:10.1161/01.cir.5.5.693. PMID 14926053.
- ^ "APS presidents". Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
- ^ [2] 2003 citation
- ^ Barrett, Kim E.; Barman, Susan M.; Boitano, Scott; Brooks, Heddwen L. (2015). Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology (25th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education / Medical. ISBN 978-0071825108.
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