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Knut

Schmidt-Nielsen (September

24, 1915 – January 25, 2007) was a prominent figure in the field of comparative physiology and

Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University. Born in Trondheim, Norway. He was educated in Oslo and Copenhagen.

He became a student in the laboratory of August Krogh in Copenhagen in 1937. Schmidt-Nielsen moved

to the United States, where he

studied at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and

the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Schmidt-Nielsen

published over 275 scientific papers and wrote the authoritative text on animal

physiology. Schmidt-Nielsen is widely recognized as having made significant

contributions to ecophysiology. He has been

referred to as "the father of comparative physiology and integrative

biology"] and "one of the all-time greats of animal

physiology". He came to Duke University in 1952 and became a James B. Duke Professor in

the Department of Biology. In 1980, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was elected President

of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. He was the founding

editor of News in Physiological Sciences. He was a member of

the Royal

Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (1973), the Norwegian

Academy of Science and Letters (1979), the Royal Society of London,

the French Academy of Sciences and

the United

States National Academy of Sciences.[5][6] Next to the Biological Science building on

Duke's campus is a statue of Schmidt-Nielson looking at a camel, honoring his

more than twenty years of work studying and dispelling myths on how camels

withstand the harsh desert environment.   He was recipient of the 1992 International Prize for

Biology awarded by the Japan

Society for the Promotion of Science.