William F. Hamilton

William Hamilton Ferguson ( born March 8, 1893, in Tombstone, Arizona, † December 18, 1964 in Augusta ( Georgia)) was an American biologist and physiologist who made ​​important contributions provided to cardiology.

Life

Hamilton was the son of an itinerant on farms and mining companies doctor. He went to Tucson to the High School and studied at Pomona College in Claremont (California ) with a bachelor's degree in 1917, there was 1914-1917 Wizard of Biology, 1917-1919 in the Army Medical Corps and from 1917 laboratory assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in zoology in 1921. It was 1920/21 Instructor in Biology at the University of Texas and from 1921 to 1923 at Yale University. After that, he was at the University of Louisville, from 1930 as a professor, and from 1932 to 1934 professor at George Washington University before he became in 1934 professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Georgia. From 1942 he was just a professor of physiology. As the Medical College of the University of Georgia was created in 1950, he was Professor of Physiology. In 1960 he became Professor Emeritus.

He dealt first with behavioral research in animals and marine biology, then the physiology of sense organs ( color vision ), and finally from about 1929 to the bloodstream. Here he developed more accurate methods for measuring blood flow, blood pressure and volume, and dealt with it in theory. For example, he was interested in the pulse rate and the effects of standing and reflected pulse waves and ratios of blood pressure in different body organs and changes in blood pressure at work, drugged, in a state of shock, inter alia, With JW Kinsman and JW Moore, he developed in 1932 in Louisville a method, the volume of blood flow ( cardiac output ) over is to determine dissolved dyes ( Stewart - Hamilton equation).

He also contributed to the understanding of electrocardiograms and developed the falling drop method for determining the specific gravity of blood.

In 1960 he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. 1955/56, he was president of the American Physiological Society (APS ).

Writings

  • Textbook of human physiology, Philadelphia: FA Davis, 2nd edition 1949
  • The physiology of cardiac output, Circulation, 8, 1953, 527-543
  • With DW Richards: The output of the heart, in Fishman AP, Richards DW (eds) The circulation of blood: Men and Ideas, Bethesda, American Physiological Society, 1982, Chapter 2
  • Measurement of cardiac output, in WF Hamilton, P. Dow (Eds.), Handbook of Physiology. Circulation, American Society Physiogical 1962, Section 2, Volume 1, 551-584
  • With G. Brewer, I. Brotman: Pressure pulse contours in the intact animals I: analytical description of a new high frequency hypodermic manometer with illustrative curves of simultaneous arterial and intra cardiac Pressures, Am. J. Physiol., 107, 1934, 427
  • With Moore, Kinsman, Spurling: Studies on the circulation IV: Further analysis of the injection method, and in changes in hemodynamics under physiological and pathological conditions, American Journal of Physiology, 99, 1934, 534
  • With Moore, Kninsman, Spurling: Studies on the circulation II: Cardiac output Determinations, comparison of the injection method with the direct Fick procedure, Am. J. Physiol., 89, 1929, 331
  • With RA Woodbury, HT Harper: Physiological relationship in between intrathoracic, intraspinal and arterial Pressures, Journal of the American Medical Association, 107, 1936, 853
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