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One hundred years ago, twenty-eight Americans agreed to form the American Physiological Society (APS, the Society). Who were they? Eighteen of them taught physiology to students of medicine; twenty had earned M.D. degrees; ten had Ph.D. degrees (three had both degrees); and sixteen had done experimental research on animals. (For detailed information on the early years of APS, see ref. 16, p. 5, and chapts. 2–6 in this volume.)
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Adolph, E.F. (1987). Physiology Flourishes in America. In: Brobeck, J.R., Reynolds, O.E., Appel, T.A. (eds) History of the American Physiological Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7576-7_1
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