Homer Smith Award recipient--Peter Aronson.
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Homer William Smith
This anthology commemorates a most unusual and complex person. Homer William Smith was best known as a renal physiologist whose work ranged from the evolution of the kidney to clinical studies on renal function and disease in man. He also studied and wrote about religion and philosophy, and published two novels, one of which, Kamongo, had rather a surprising success considering that its "plot" ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1681/asn.v5122000