RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

152 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
funds were obtained to carry on important research
in genetics, plant physiology, biophysics,
and biochemistry. The one department still to
be built up was that of physiology. Under the
present Foundation appropriation Professor
Morgan, after an extensive search, selected as
professor of physiology Dr. C. A. G. Wiersma,
formerly of Utrecht, with Dr. van Harreveld,
also of the Netherlands, as his assistant, to organize
such a department.
Washington University
Neurophysiology
For special research in nerve physiology under
the direction of Professor F. 0. Schmitt during
a three-year period from July 1,1935, to June 30,
1938, there has been appropriated to Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri, the sum of
$16,500. Researches on the nature of the nerve
impulse and the methods of its conduction are
basic to the understanding of normal and abnormal
behavior and are in close and direct relationship
to the Foundation program in the
medical as well as in the biological sciences. The
group under Professor F. 0. Schmitt has developed
techniques for several lines of attack.
Certain basic studies in nerve physiology have
been published, and progress has already been
made under the following four headings: (1)
molecular orientation in the nerve; (2) molecular
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