Background
Larrabee, Martin Glover was born on January 25, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ralph Clinton and Ada Perkins Miller Larrabee.
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Martin Glover Larrabee
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Martin Glover Larrabee, American biophysics educator. Achievements include research in circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems of animals, especially on synaptic and metabolic mechanisms in sympathetic ganglia, 1934-1999; wartime research on oxygen lack, decompression sickness, nerve injury, infrared viewing devices, 1941-1945.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1932; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1937; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974.
Career
Research assistant, fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1934-1940; associate to associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1941-1949; assistant professor physiology, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1940-1941; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1949-1963; professor biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1963.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Society for Neurosci. (treasurer 1970-1975), National Academy of Sciences, International Neurochem. Society, American Society Neurochemistry, Biophysics Society, American Physiological Society, English Physiological Society (associate), Mountain of Maryland, Sierra, Appalachian Mountain, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Sylvia Kimball, September 10, 1932 (divorced 1944). 1 son, Benjamin Larrabee Scherer. Married Barbara Belcher, March 25, 1944 (deceased 1996).
1 son, David Belcher Larrabee. Married Sarah B. Galloway, July 11, 1998.
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June 16, 2003 (aged 93) -
Nationality
American
Education
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1932
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1937
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1974