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It his article on the Vienna Academy of Sciences, Dr. R. W. Lawson1 refers to the Biologische Versuchsanstalt and its distinguished directors. He does not mention E. Steinach, head of the Physiology Department and whom many biologists regard as the founder of modern endocrinology. Pincus2 and Sherrington3 refer to his work carried out during the long period 1898–1940. Steinach served as director from 1910 until 1938, when Austrian S.A. men invaded his estate and forced him to accept refuge in Switzerland, where he died about two years ago.
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Lawson, R. W., Nature, 159, 831 (1947).
Pincus, G., âœRecent Progress in Hormone Researchâ. Proceedings of the. Laurentian Hormone Conference. (Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1947.)
Sherrington, C., âœThe Integrative Action of the Nervous Systemâ (Cambridge University Press, 1947).
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PECZENIK, O. The Vienna Academy of Sciences. Nature 160, 406 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160406a0
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