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PROF. ALFRED NEWTON RICHARDS, who is now the vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania, with special responsibility for its important Medical School, has been engaged for a large part of his working life in experimental researches on the method of formation of urine by the kidney, over a wide range of vertebrate types. By original methods of great beauty and refinement, he has provided some of the most important available evidence concerning this excretory function. During the War of 1914-18, he crossed the Atlantic at short notice, in 1917, to collaborate with Dr. (now Sir Henry) Dale and the late Dr. P. P. Laidlaw in researches on traumatic shock, and joined with these workers in publications on the action of histamine and on related problems. Last year Prof. Richards became the first chairman of the newly appointed Committee on Medical Research of the United States, under 4 ; he Office of Scientific Research and Development. No man is more fitted than he to promote the friendly collaboration in medical researches of the whole English-speaking world, both now and after the War.
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Prof. Alfred N. Richards. Nature 149, 726–727 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149726e0
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