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The
Founders' Medal of the American Physiological Society.
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Founders'
Medal
The
Founders' Medal of the American Physiological Society, was created
on the occasion of the Society's centennial
in 1987.
Jefferson Medical
College boasts two important connections to the field of American
physiology:
- Robley Dunglison,
MD, formerly physician to President Thomas Jefferson and later
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence
at Jefferson Medical College, 1836-1868, is generally hailed as
the "Father of American Physiology."
- S. Weir Mitchell,
a graduate of the Class of 1850, was one of the founders and leading
lights of the American Physiological Society, as is evident by
the central position his portrait occupies on the face of the
centennial medal.
Jefferson Medical
College's importance to the founding of the APS is further demonstrated
by its hosting the first annual meeting of the society on 29 December
1888.
The Founders' Medal
is an example of the objects preserved in the Memorabilia Collection
of the University Archives and Special Collections.
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