Historical Figures

Sir Samurai T. D. Luckey, PhD

Sir Samurai T. D. Luckey, PhD

T.D. Luckey, Lawrence, KS

EARLY LIFE
I, Thomas Donnell Lockey, was born on May 15, 1919, in the Natrona County Hospital in Casper, Wyoming. It was a new hospital, and my father, Dr. Frank Seymour Luckey, physician, surgeon and rancher, was a founding director. Dad was taciturn, very knowledgeable, and the strongest man I ever knew. During my birth, my mother, Lily Waggener Luckey, had a near-death experience. She was ill for several months following my birth and my Aunt Floti Waggener took care of me during this time… [autobiography in PDF]

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Chester M. Southam

Chester M. Southam

1919-2002 “HORMESIS”: The Origin of the Term The first mention of the term hormesis in the open scientific literature was in the article: Southam, Chester, M. and Ehrlich, John. (1943). Effects of Extract of western red-cedar heartwood on certain wood-decaying fungi in culture. Phytopathology 33:517-524. At the time of publication of this article, Chester M. […]

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Fernando Hueppe

Fernando Hueppe

Fernando Hueppe 1852-1938 Trained as a physician in Berlin in the mid 1870s, Ferdinand Hueppe (1852-1938) first became an army surgeon. Subsequently, from 1880 to 1884, he went on to study with the internationally famous physician-scientist Robert Koch. Under Koch’s leadership, Hueppe made several significant advances in microbiology and was nominated for the Nobel Prize […]

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Hugo Schulz

Hugo Schulz

Hugo Schulz 1853-1932 Remembering Hugo Schulz By Edward J. Calabrese International Dose-Response Society BELLE Initiative Department of Environmental Health Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Hugo Schulz should have an important place in the history of pharmacology and toxicology because he is credited with being the one who discovered what is now referred to […]

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