Francis O. Schmitt

Affiliations: 
Biology and Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
structure and molecular properties of proteins, of cells, and of tissues; neuroscience
Website:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1995/obit-schmitt.html
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(1903 - 1995)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50783.html
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9649&page=342
https://biology.mit.edu/events/francis_o_schmitt_lecture

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Parents

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Joseph Erlanger grad student 1927 Washington University
 (The conduction of the impulse through cold blooded heart muscle locally altered)
Gilbert N. Lewis post-doc 1927 UC Berkeley (Chemistry Tree)
Jack Cecil Drummond post-doc 1928 UCL (Chemistry Tree)
Otto Fritz Meyerhof post-doc 1929 Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Chemistry Tree)
Otto Warburg post-doc 1929 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie (Chemistry Tree)

Children

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David Floyd Waugh grad student 1940 Washington University (Chemistry Tree)
Mario Luxoro grad student 1956 MIT
Arnold Hastings Nevis grad student 1956 MIT
Norman Geschwind post-doc MIT
Hugh Esmor Huxley post-doc 1952 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Bernard Agranoff post-doc 1950-1952 MIT
Edwin W. Taylor post-doc 1959 MIT (Cell Biology Tree)
Jerome Gross research scientist 1948 MIT (BME Tree)

Collaborators

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Richard Scott Bear collaborator 1939 Washington University (Chemistry Tree)
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Schmitt FO, Davison PF. (1964) Chemical, Structural, and Immunological Studies of Nerve Axon Protein Berichte Der Bunsengesellschaft FüR Physikalische Chemie. 68: 887-889
SCHMITT FO. (1959) Ultrastructure of nerve myelin and its bearing on fundamental concepts of the structure and function of nerve fibers. Progress in Neurobiology. 4: 1-36
SCHMITT FO. (1958) Axon-satellite cell relationships in peripheral nerve fibers. Experimental Cell Research. 14: 33-57
SCHMITT FO, GESCHWIND N. (1957) The axon surface. Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry. 8: 165-215
SCHMITT FO. (1957) The fibrous protein of the nerve axon. Journal of Cellular Physiology. Supplement. 49: 165-74
Schmitt FO, Geren BB. (1956) On the significance of the Schwann cell in the structure and function of peripheral nerve Protoplasma. 46: 659-662
Gross J, Highberger JH, Schmitt FO. (1955) EXTRACTION OF COLLAGEN FROM CONNECTIVE TISSUE BY NEUTRAL SALT SOLUTIONS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 1-7
Geren BB, Schmitt FO. (1954) THE STRUCTURE OF THE SCHWANN CELL AND ITS RELATION TO THE AXON IN CERTAIN INVERTEBRATE NERVE FIBERS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 40: 863-70
Gross J, Highberger JH, Schmitt FO. (1954) COLLAGEN STRUCTURES CONSIDERED AS STATES OF AGGREGATION OF A KINETIC UNIT. THE TROPOCOLLAGEN PARTICLE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 40: 679-88
Schmitt FO, Gross J, Highberger JH. (1953) A New Particle Type in Certain Connective Tissue Extracts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 39: 459-70
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