Harriet Florence Maling (née Mylander, October 2, 1918 – March 1987) was an American pharmacologist. She graduated

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in 1940. She went to Harvard Medical School to continue her studies, earning a PhD in 1944. Her focus of study involved the physiology of the heart, the effects of various drugs upon the heart and on the autonomic and sympathetic nervous systems, experimenting with artificially created myocardial infarction. Her daughter

Joan Maling Joan Maling is an American linguist and a former program director at the National Science Foundation. Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic. Her mother was Harriet Florence Maling. Maling earned a BA from Goucher College ...

is a linguist and past president of the

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