Carl J. wiggers-the inventive physiologist, 1883-1963

Circulation Research: reflections on the founding editor, Carl J. Wiggers.

The opportunity provided me by Dr Marbán, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Circulation Research, to reflect on my early contacts with the journal, naturally brings to mind 1953, the year of its founding. It was an exciting time for cardiovascular research. The United States had largely recovered from the trauma of World War II, and an internal enemy, cardiovascular disease, had re...

Carl J. Wiggers and the pulmonary circulation: a young man in search of excellence.

Oddly, Carl Wiggers (1883-1962), who is remembered for his work on the systemic circulation, may be considered the "American father of the pulmonary circulation." In nearly 20 papers published in the American Journal of Physiology between 1909 and 1925, he reported the first reliable pressure contours in the pulmonary artery, inquired into the relationship between respiration and pulmonary arte...

Carl J. Carl J. Levinson, MD, 1927–2011

With such a mentor, we are pushed to become much more than we could have been, to strive to achieve beyond ourselves. Carl exemplified this in his character not only for SLS and me but also in other organizations and places, such as AAGL, in Milwaukee, at Baylor, in San Francisco, and ultimately at Stanford. He influenced many leaders in the field today. To name just a few: Camran Nezhat, Rober...

E. J. Marey--physiologist and first cinematographer.

The delayed diagnosis of myocardial infarction: it took half a century!

IN 1940 the physiologist Carl Wiggers claimed, "Delayed recognition of important physiological discoveries frequently continues untenable and wrong points of view.. . Greater mutual efforts ought to be made by clinicians and physiologists for better dissemination, digestion and absorption of important physiological discoveries."1l Although angina pectoris had been described by William Heberden ...