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Eugene Landis
(4 1901 - 2 1987)
American physiologist and pharmacologist who was the first person to design a method of measuring the blood pressure in the capillary system. He was chairman of the physiology department at Harvard Medical School for 24 years.
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Science Quotes by Eugene Landis (1 quote)
It is rare enough that a scientist sheds light on an area which nature has kept secret and then during his lifetime, sees that area illuminate in turn every corner of physiology and medicine. It is rarer still that one man can contribute concurrently almost as much to several other biological fields as well. That meanwhile he [August Krogh] should develop in addition a large school of devoted students who loved the man even more, if possible, than they venerated the scientist, spells the highest form of genius.
— Eugene Landis
Commemorative words presented to the American Physiological Society (1950), describing Eugene Landis, his friend and colleague at Harvard University. As quoted and cited in Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen, August and Marie Krogh: Lives in Science (2013), 4.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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