Article ID: CBB001212078

Francis Gano Benedict's Reports of Visits to Foreign Laboratories and the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory (2011)

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Between 1907 and 1932/33 Francis Gano Benedict, director of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, made seven extended tours of European metabolism laboratories. Benedict compiled extensive reports of these tours, which contain detailed descriptions and hundreds of photographs of the apparatus, laboratories and people that Benedict encountered. The tours took place during significant decades for physiology, covering the rise of American physiology, the effect of the First World War on European laboratories and the emergence of an international community in metabolism studies. This essay provides an introduction to Benedict's Reports of Visits to Foreign Laboratories and their central themes, situating them within the history of American physiology and the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory. It concludes with an assessment of these volumes as a source for the history of early twentieth-century nutrition physiology.

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Description As director of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, Benedict toured European metabolism laboratories in the early 20th century.


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Authors & Contributors
Kurtulmus, A Faik
Irzik, Gürol
Gina Surita
Keuller, Adriana T. A. Martins
Williams, Elizabeth A.
Vetter, Jeremy
Concepts
Laboratories
Physiology
Research institutes; research stations
Metabolism; physiological chemistry
Nutrition
Government sponsored science
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Antarctica
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Europe
Institutions
Königlich Preußischen Institut für experimentelle Therapie
Georg Speyer-Haus
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Great Britain)
Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen
Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
University of Chicago
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