Dr. Irving Langmuir, For.Mem.R.S.

The Placebo Effect: A Conversation With Dr Irving Kirsch

The First Fellow of American College of Surgeons to Come to Korea: Dr. Alfred Irving Ludlow

(1875–1961) dedicated himself to his work as a professor of surgery at Severance Union Medical College. During his travels with L. H. Severance to Korea in 1907 (Fig. 1), Dr. Ludlow attended the meeting of the 15th Presbyterian Council and the First Presbytery of the Presbyterian in Ko-rea and decided to become a medical missionary at the age of 37. By 1912, he had devoted his life to Severance...

Laurence Irving: an appreciation.

Laurence Irving (1895-1979) contributed significantly over five decades to the development of environmentally oriented physiological studies. He is best known for his investigations of the physiology of diving mammals, the respiratory properties of fish blood, and cold adaptation and acclimatization in poikilotherms and homeotherms, including man. Beyond his own research contributions, Irving b...

Grafton E . Burke and Irving

The use of heparin and dicumarol has provided important information regarding the effectiveness and the difficulties of anticoagulant therapy. Neither, however, is an ideal anticoagulant; therefore a search for new substances with advantages over them must be continued. Tromexan, which is administered orally, appears to have the advantages of more rapid utilization and more rapid cessation of a...

Irving Weissman: Working for regenerative medicine

T he thriving fi eld of adult stem cells and its burgeoning therapeutic promise owe a big tip of the hat to Irv Weissman, who in the late '80s isolated the fi rst class of these pluripotent cells—the mouse hematopoeitic stem cell (1). Not long afterwards, he identifi ed its human counterpart (2) and then began determining the environmental cells in the bone marrow (3, 4) and thymus (5, 6) that ...