Reminiscences of a journeyman scientist: studies of thermoregulation in non-human primates and humans.
After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 where I majored in experimental psychology I worked at the College for 2 years with the Johns Hopkins Thermophysiological Unit. My graduate work later at the University of Wisconsin, centering on sensory psychology, culminated in my 1955 PhD thesis on human dark adaptation. I continued work in sensory psychology later with Neal Miller at Yale and then moved to the John B. Pierce Foundation--a Yale affiliate--where I began the studies of thermoregulation that constitute the center of my scientific career. Those studies were largely--later wholly--conducted using microwave energy as a thermal load and were thus published in Bioelectromagnetics even as I played an active role in the Bioelectromagnetics Society. In the beginning this work was centered on the responses of Squirrel Monkeys to thermal loads. Later, serving as Senior Scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory at San Antonio, I completed an extensive analysis of thermal regulation in humans. I consider this work of special note inasmuch as the extraordinary human thermoregulatory ability was surely among the attributes that were paramount in initially separating humans from the other anthropoid primates.
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Eleanor Reed
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US Air Force, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay / Q000379:methods*; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011323:Primates