Education
He received his Master of Surgery (1920) and Doctor of Philosophy (1923) from the University of Wisconsin in pharmacology and physiology.
He received his Master of Surgery (1920) and Doctor of Philosophy (1923) from the University of Wisconsin in pharmacology and physiology.
Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University. Leake was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. At age 10, he was treated by the ophthalmologist Karl Koller.
Leake discovered the anesthetic divinyl ether.
One of his publications was a translation of the 1628 physiological work De motu cordis (On the Motion of the Heart) from Latin to English. In 1973, Leake was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto World War II A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
