Irvine Heinly Heinly Page

Background

Page, Irvine Heinly was born on January 7, 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Lafayette and Marian (Heinly) Page.

Education

Bachelor in Chemistry, Cornell University, 1921. Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University, 1926. Doctor of Laws, John Carroll University, 1956.

Honorary Doctor of Science, Union University, 1957. Honorary Doctor of Science, Boston University, 1957. Honorary Doctor of Science, Ohio State University, 1960.

Honorary Doctor of Science, University Brazil, 1961. Honorary Doctor of Science, Cleveland State University, 1970. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Siena, Italy, 1965.

Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Medical College Ohio, 1973. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Indiana University, 1975. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Rockefeller University, 1977.

Career

His first contributions were published in the early 1930s and his most recent, "Hypertension Research: A Memoir: 1920-1960", in 1988. He is perhaps best known for the co-discovery of serotonin in 1948, although his pre-eminence is a matter of record in four other areas: the renin-angiotensin system, the mosaic theory of hypertension, treatment of hypertension and public and professional advocacy of the recognition of this condition and its effects in daily life. In earlier work he published on the neurochemistry of the brain.

Page received many honors for his work.

He was on the cover of Time magazine"s October 31, 1955 issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971 and published his memoirs in 1988.

A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Page, Irvine (1987). Hypertension Mechanisms.

Orlando, Florida: Grune & Stratton.

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Page, Irvine (1988). Hypertension Research: A Memoir: 1920-1960.

New York: Pergamon.

Page, Irvine (1937).

Chemistry of the brain. New York: Community College Thomas.

ASIN B-000-87D23-C.

Achievements

• Irvine Heinly Page has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Speaking to the doctor : his responsibilities and opportunities : selected editorials from Modern medicine
  • Speaking to the Doctor: His Responsibilities and Opportunities
  • Serotonin

Membership

Trustee Whitehead Institute Medical Research. Master American College of Physicians. Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine (founding), National Hypertension Association (president), American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (honorary), Central Society Clinical Research, Society for Experimental Biology in Medicine (president), American Heart Association (past president, founder and member council on high blood pressure research, chairman council on artherosclerosis, founder council high blood research), American Medical Association (chairman science advisory committee, past chairman section on experimental medical), American Society Biological Chemical, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Physiological Society, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Study Arteriosclerosis (founding member), German Medical Society (correspondent), Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (foreign), Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Beatrice Allen, October 28, 1930. Children: Christopher, Nicholas.

Father:

Lafayette Page

Mother:

Marian (Heinly) Page

Spouse:

Beatrice Allen

child:

Nicholas Page

child:

Christopher Page