Background
Smith, Homer William was born on January 2, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Albert C. and Margaret E. (Jones) Smith.
physiologist university professor
Smith, Homer William was born on January 2, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Albert C. and Margaret E. (Jones) Smith.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Denver, 1917. Doctor of Science, Johns Hopkins, 1921. (honorary) Master of Science, Yale University, 1937.
1 son, Homer Wilson. Research pharmacologist Hygienic Laboratory, District of Columbia, 1919. Research chemist Eli Lilly & Company, 1921-1923. National research fellow in physiology, Harvard Medical School, 1923-1925.
Professor physiology, University of Virginia, 1925-1928, Guggenheim fellow in physiology, 1928, 30.
Professor physiological, director physiological laboratories, New York University College Medicine, since 1928. Belfield lecturer, Chicago, 1938.
Porter lecturer, Kansas City, 1939. Harvey lecturer, New York, 1940.
Welch lecturer, New York, 1942.
Herzstein lecturer, San Francisco, 1947, Rothschild lecturer, New York City, 1948, Millikan lecturer, Nashville, 1948, Barlow lecturer, Los Angeles, 1949, Sommer lecturer, Portland, 1950, McGuire lecturer, Richmond, 1950, Martland lecturer, Newark, 1951, Freiberg lecturer, Cincinnati, 1952, Sherwood lecturer, Lawrence, Kansas, Musser lecturer, 1952, Ballenger lecturer, Havana. Aaron Brown lecturer, Philadelphia, Bernard lecturer, Winston-Salem, 1953. Also numerous other named lectureships.
Visiting professor Yale Medical School, 1936, Bowman Gray, 1953.
Walker Ames professor of University Washington, 1955. Visiting professor Rockefeller Institute, 1957.
Graves visiting professor U. Indiana, 1958. Research fellow New York Academy of Medicine.
Homer Smith"s elegant experiments on the kidney in the 1930s proved beyond any doubt that it operated according to physical principles, both as a filter and a secretory organ, eliminating the last vestige of Vitalism in physiology.
Member medical fellowship board National Research Council. Served as Lieutenant, Chemical Warfare Service, World War, 1917-1918. Member American Academy Sciences National Academy Sciences, American Physiological Society, American Society Biological Chemists, Association American Physicians, American Society Icthyologists and Herpetologists.
Society for Exntl.
Biology and Medicine. Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (president), Bermuda Laboratory for Biological Research (trustee). Member Harvey Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Carlotta Smith, September 17, 1921 (divorced).