John Richard Pappenheimer (October 25, 1915 – December 26, 2007) was the George Higginson Professor of

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and the thirty-seventh president of the

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from 1964 until 1965. He contributed to a wide range of disciplines within physiology: capillary permeability, respiratory physiology, blood-brain-CSF transport, the neurochemical aspects of sleep, and most recently to the understanding of the absorption of sugars and amino acids in the intestine. He was the final of three children born to Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Sr., a distinguished pathologist on the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at

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and Beatrice (Leo) Pappenheimer. His siblings were Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr. (1908–1995) and

Anne Pappenheimer Forbes Anne Pappenheimer Forbes (1911–1992) was an American endocrinologist. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, she was an associate of Fuller Albright, who was the endocrinology chief at Harvard Medical Sc ...

(1911–1992). He married Helena Palmer in 1949, and they had three sons, Glenn, a poet and teacher 1954-1981, Will Pappenheimer, an artist, and Rick Plant, a musician, and one daughter, Rosamond Pappenheimer Zimmermann (Ros Zimmermann), an artist and poet.

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Boston Globe: John R. Pappenheimer, 92; taught physiology at Harvard
1915 births 2007 deaths Harvard University faculty Harvard University alumni American physiologists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{US-academic-scientist-stub