Background
Middlesworth, Lester Van was born on January 13, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Lester and Hazel Lucile (Brandt) VanMiddlesworth.
physiology biophysics and medicine educator
Middlesworth, Lester Van was born on January 13, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Lester and Hazel Lucile (Brandt) VanMiddlesworth.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University Virginia, 1940. Master of Science in Chemistry, University Virginia, 1942. Master of Science in Physiology, University Virginia, 1944.
Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, University California, Berkeley, 1946. Doctor of Medicine, University Tennessee, 1951. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Tennessee, 2008.
Teaching assistant department physiology, University of Virginia, 1944;
teaching assistant department physiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1944-1945;
instructor, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, 1946-1952;
instructor in medicine, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, 1953-1957;
assistant professor physiology, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, 1952-1954;
associate professor, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, 1954-1959;
professor, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, 1959-1989;
professor emeritus physiology and biophysics, U. Tennessee Medical Units, Memphis, since 1989;
assistant professor medicine, U. Tennessee Medical Units, 1957-1961;
associate professor, U. Tennessee Medical Units, 1961-1972;
professor medicine, U. Tennessee Medical Units, 1972-1989;
professor medicine emeritus, U. Tennessee Medical Units, 1989;
Distinguished professor physiology and medicine, U. Tennessee Medical Units, since 1986. Rotating intern City of Memphis Hospitals, 1951-1952. Consultant chief chemist Piedmont Apple Products Corporation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1940-1946, CrockerRadiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1947, Oak Ridge Institute Nuclear Studies, 1950-1954.
Guest co-investigator Endocrine laboratories Tufts Medical College, Boston, summers 1954, 55, 56, 59, 61, 64, 66, 69, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1957. Guest investigator in endocrinology Harbor General Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971, Frederick Joliot Hospital, Orsay, France, 1972, Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory University of California, 1970;staff member clinic for medical thyroid disease patients, City of Memphisand U., Tennessee, 1951-1989.
Member American Chemical Society, American Physiological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Clinical Investigation, Southern Society Clinical Investigation, Health Physics Society, Endocrine Society, American Thyroid Association (Distinguished Service award 1988), Sigma Xi (research award 1944, 86, national lecturer 1989-1991), Alpha Chi Sigma.
Married Nellie Rue Franklin, June 29, 1948. Children: Linda V. Anderson, Jane V. Norman, Frank L., Paul E.