Background
Ferguson, Frederick Palmer was born on March 19, 1916 in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Son of Frederick Burns and Frances Van Norstrand (Palmer) Ferguson.
government official physiologist
Ferguson, Frederick Palmer was born on March 19, 1916 in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Son of Frederick Burns and Frances Van Norstrand (Palmer) Ferguson.
Bachelor with honors, Wesleyan University, 1938. Master of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy (C.P. Sigerfoos fellow), University Minnesota, 1943.
Assistant biology Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1938-1939, assistant professor, 1947-1949. Assistant zoology University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1939-1943. Instructor physiology Louisiana State University, New Orleans, 1943-1945.
Research associate Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1945-1946, assistant professor physiology, 1946-1947, University Maryland, Baltimore, 1949-1951, associate professor, 1951-1955, professor, 1955-1960. With National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1960-1988. Program coordinator biophysics and physiological science program National Institute General Medical Sciences, 1984-1988.
Member advisory committee Life Sciences Research Office, Federation American Societies Experimental Biology, 1972-1979.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences. Member American Physiological Society, American Society Zoologists, biomedical Engineering Society (director 1980-1982), Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lamda Upsilon.
Married Dorothy Helen Delano, June 14, 1941. Children: Ruth, Kathleen, Barbara, James, Thomas.