William Muhlberg (April 8, 1875,

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— April 5, 1962, Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American physician, physiologist, and medical director for the

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. He was awarded the 1942

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of the

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Biography

William Muhlberg graduated in 1893 from Cincinnati's Woodward High School and then attended the

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. In 1897 he graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, which became the

College of Medicine. For a year and a half from 1897 to 1898 he was a medical intern at Cincinnati's City Hospital, which became part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center. For the academic year 1897–1898 he studied physiology in

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. He also did postgraduate work in Vienna and Berlin. For the academic year 1899–1900 he was an assistant in the laboratory of physiology of

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, where he worked with

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. For some time Muhlberg was a pathologist at Cincinnati's Deaconess German Hospital. He was a professor of physiology at Medical College of Ohio from 1901 to 1907, when he resigned his professorship. At

, Muhlberg was assistant medical director from 1907 to 1916 and medical director from 1916 until his retirement. On June 7, 1942, in

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, he delivered the Banting Memorial Lecture entitled ''An Analysis of Statistics Bearing on Diabetes Mellitus''. In 1904 in Idaho Springs, Colorado he married Edna Zinke. Their daughter Edna was born in 1910 in Cincinnati.

Selected publications

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References

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