Background
Baumberger, James Percy was born on September 17, 1892 in San Leandro, California, United States. Son of James and Elise Marie-Louise (Deprez) Baumberger.
Baumberger, James Percy was born on September 17, 1892 in San Leandro, California, United States. Son of James and Elise Marie-Louise (Deprez) Baumberger.
Bachelor of Science, University California, 1914. Master of Science, Harvard, 1916, Doctor of Science, 1918.
Assistant or teaching fellow in entomology, zoology, botany, or physiology at Harvard or Radcliffe, 1914-1918. Instructor natural science Lowthorpe Horticultural School, Grotun, Massachusetts, 1915-1918. Member of faculty, department physiology Stanford Medical School, from 1919, professor physiology, 1935-1958, professor emeritus, from 1958.
Senior research associate with the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation, from 1961.
Research associate, department of medicine Collis P. Huntington Cancer Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1932-1933. Visiting professor anatomy department Washington University, 1941, also research associate Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, Saint Louis.
Visiting professor aviation physiology University of Southern California School Medicine, 1943 (working on O.S.R.D. project on explosive decompression). Special consultant Aeronautical.
Medical Laboratory, Army Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, O., 1944.
Responsible investigator Office Naval Research project on field physiology, 1952-1953, on bird migration, 1953-1955. Principal investigator project oxygen delivery rate of erythrocytes, other projects for Air Force.
Served with Military Cross, Australia, Advertising Educational Foundation, in traumatic shock laboratory, 1918. Held Common for Relief in Belgium Ednl. Foundation; Fellowship, Bruxelles, 1925-1926.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Physiological Society, American Association University Professors, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (chairman Pacific coast section 1956-1958), American Association Cancer Research, Society General Physiological, Western Society Naturalists, Sigma Xi, Cercle des Alumni de la Foundation Universitaire. Club: Commonwealth of California (San Francisco).
Married Alberta Loraine Jackson, December 22, 1914.