Adolf Magnus-Levy
Adolf Magnus-Levy · Science & Medicine
Physician who pioneered the study of basal metabolism and metabolic disorders
1865, Berlin, Germany (then Kingdom of Prussia) — 1955, New York City, United States
Germany · United States
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Adolf Magnus-Levy was a German physician and physiologist who pioneered the study of basal metabolism, developing methods to measure the basal metabolic rate and linking it to disorders of the thyroid and diabetes. Of Jewish origin, he fled Nazi Germany, became a US citizen in 1940, and taught at Yale. He is Jewish.
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Physician who pioneered the study of basal metabolism and metabolic disorders
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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