Carl Frederic Schmidt

Background

Schmidt, Carl Frederic was born on July 29, 1893 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob Charles and Mary Ellen (Greth) Schmidt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Lebanon Valley College, 1914, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1955. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1918, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1965. Distinguished Service Medal, Charles University, Prague, 1963.

Career

Intern, Hospital University of Pennsylvania, 1918-1919. Instructor pharmacology University of Pennsylvania, 1919-1922, assistant professor, 1924-1929, associate professor, 1929-1931, professor pharmacology Medical School, 1931-1959, emeritus professor pharmacology, 1959-1988, Dental School, 1949-1952. Associate in pharmacology Peking (China) Union Medical College, 1922-1924.

Guest lecturer Portland (Oregon) Medical Society, U. Oregon Medical School, 1943.

Mary Scott Newbold lecturer College Physicians Philadelphia, 1943. Commonwealth visiting professor U. Louisville, 1946.

Harvey lecturer, New York, 1949, annual lecturer in pharmacology U. London, 1949. Henry Lower lecturer, Cleveland, 1949.

Hachmeister Memorial lecturer Georgetown University, 1951.

Graves lecturer Indiana University, 1954. Chairman advising committee Life Insurance Research Fund, 1954-1955. Consultant surgeon general United States Army andVA.

Visiting professor U. Philippines, 1955.

Research director United States Naval Aerospace, medical research department Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, 1962-1969. Clinical professor pharmacology U. South Florida College Medicine, from 1970.

Member Unitarian Medical Mission to Germany, 1948. Chairman pharmacology studysect.

United States Public Health Service, 1947-1951, member phsyiology study secretary, 1947-1948.

Chairman International.

Achievements

• Carl Frederic Schmidt has been listed as a noteworthy educator, pharmacologist, physiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellowships Committee, 1963-1964. Member drug research board National Academy Science, 1963-1969. Member National Research Council, 1947-1950, secretary subcommittee oxygen and anoxia, 1941-1945.

Member of advisory panelon physiology Office Naval Research, 1947-1952.

Served as First lieutenant, Medical Reserve corpus, United States army, 1918-1925. Member International Union Physiological Sciences(vice president, president section pharmacology 1959-1965, president 1965-1966, honorary president 1966-1988), American Heart Association, American Society Pharmacology (vice president 1940-1942, president 1948-1950), American Physiology Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association American Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Physiology Society Philadelphia, Penn Valley Association (president 1944-1946), National Academy Sciences, American Academy Arts and Science, Aerospace Medical Association, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.

Member Pharmacol. Society, Argentine Medical Association, others

Club: Merion Cricket (Haverford, Pennsylvania). Managing editor Journal Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1940-1942, Circulation Research, 1958-1962.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Viola Gruber, June 24, 1920. Children: Carl F., Barbara Elizabeth.

Father:

Jacob Charles Schmidt

Mother:

Mary Ellen (Greth) Schmidt

Spouse:

Elizabeth Viola Gruber

child:

Carl F. Schmidt

child:

Barbara Elizabeth Schmidt