Biography:Haldan Keffer Hartline

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Haldan Keffer Hartline
Haldan Keffer Hartline, c. 1958
Born(1903-12-22)December 22, 1903
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, US
DiedMarch 17, 1983(1983-03-17) (aged 79)
Fallston, Maryland, US
Alma mater
Known forVisual perception
Awards
  • ForMemRS (1966)[1]
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1967)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorAugust Herman Pfund

Haldan Keffer Hartline ForMemRS[1] (December 22, 1903 – March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.[9]

Biography

Haldan Hartline did his undergraduate studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1923.[10] He began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, receiving his medical degree in 1927.

Scientific career

Awards and honors

In 1948, Hartline was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.[11] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1952 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.[12][13] He was elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the Optical Society (OSA) of America in 1959. Later, OSA elected him an Honorary Member in 1980.[14] Hartline was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1966.[1] He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.[15][16]

Personal life

Hartline married Elizabeth Kraus Hartline in 1936.[17] They had three children: Daniel, Peter, and Frederick Hartline.[18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Granit, R.; Ratliff, F. (1985). "Haldan Keffer Hartline. 22 December 1903-18 March 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 31: 262–292. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0010. ISSN 0080-4606. PMID 11621205. 
  2. ↑ Raju, T. N. (1999). "The Nobel Chronicles". The Lancet 354 (9178): 605–779. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)77968-X. PMID 10470741. 
  3. ↑ Sulek, K. (1969). "Nobel prize for George Wald, Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragner Granit in 1967 for discoveries concerning the primary biochemical and physiological phenomena occurring in the process of vision". Wiadomosci Lekarskie 22 (13): 1258–1259. PMID 4897321. 
  4. ↑ Crescitelli, F. (1968). "The 1967 nobel prizes for physiology or medicine". Vision Research 8 (4): 333–337. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(68)90103-X. PMID 4939576. 
  5. ↑ Dubois-Poulsen, A. (1968). "The Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967". Annales d'oculistique 201 (3): 257–269. PMID 4877173. 
  6. ↑ Bouman, M. A. (1968). "Ragnar Garnit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald, winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine". Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 112 (1): 23–25. PMID 4875782. 
  7. ↑ "The Nobel prize for physiology or medicine". Nordisk Medicin 78 (44): 1429–1434. 1967. PMID 4864608. 
  8. ↑ Dowling, J. E.; Ratliff, F. (1967). "Nobel Prize: Three Named for Medicine, Physiology Award". Science 158 (3800): 468–473. doi:10.1126/science.158.3800.468. PMID 4860394. Bibcode: 1967Sci...158..468D. 
  9. ↑ Anon (1967). "Men of vision". British Medical Journal 4 (5573): 185–186. doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5573.185. PMID 4861385. 
  10. ↑ Waggoner, Walter H. (19 March 1983). "H. Keffer Hartline is Dead at 79; Nobel Laureate in Vision Research" (in en). New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/19/obituaries/obituary.html. 
  11. ↑ "Halden K. Hartline". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001390.html. 
  12. ↑ "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Haldan+Keffer+Hartline&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced. 
  13. ↑ "Haldan Keffer Hartline" (in en). 9 February 2023. https://www.amacad.org/person/haldan-keffer-hartline. 
  14. ↑ "Haldan Keffer Hartline | Optica". https://www.optica.org/History/Biographies/bios/Haldan-Keffer-Hartline. 
  15. ↑ Miss nobel-id as parameter , accessed 12 October 2020
  16. ↑ National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir: Haldane Keefer Hartline 1903—1983 A Biographical Memoir by Floyd Ratliff
  17. ↑ Rasmussen, Frederick N. (31 July 2001). "Elizabeth K. Hartline, 91, environmentalist, Maryland Wildlands Committee founder" (in en-US). https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-07-31-0107310294-story.html. 
  18. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1967/hartline/biographical/. 
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