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Irvine Page
Page (right) and lab tech in the 1960s
Born

Irvine Heinly Page


(1901-01-07)January 7, 1901
DiedJune 10, 1991(1991-06-10) (aged 90)

Irvine Heinly Page (January 7, 1901 – June 10, 1991) was an American physiologist who played an important part in the field of hypertension for almost 60 years while working at the Cleveland Clinic as the first Chair of Research.[1][2][3]

Early life and education[edit]

Irvine Page was born on January 7, 1901, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended college at Cornell University, with an undergraduate degree in chemistry (1921) and an M.D. degree in 1926.[4] Page completed his internship at Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals in New York City.[5]

Career[edit]

After completing his internship, Page then performed research in physical chemistry at Woods Hole and then New York. In 1928 he joined the Kaiser Wilhelm InstituteinMunich, Germany where he started a new department of neurochemistry. With the coming rise to power of Hitler, Page left Munich in 1931 to work with Donald Van SlykeatThe Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute through 1937. Page then moved back to Indianapolis as Director of the Laboratory for Clinical Research at Eli LillyatCity Hospital. In 1945, Page then organized a new research division at the Cleveland Clinic.[5]

His first contributions were published in the early 1930s and his most recent, "Hypertension Research: A Memoir: 1920–1960", in 1988. He is perhaps best known for the co-discovery of serotonin in 1948,[6] although his pre-eminence is a matter of record in four other areas: the renin–angiotensin system, the mosaic theory of hypertension,[7] treatment of hypertension and public and professional advocacy of the recognition of this condition and its effects in daily life. In earlier work he published on the neurochemistry of the brain.

Page received many honors for his work. He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1955.[8] He was president of the American Heart Association (1956–57); he received ten honorary degrees and a number of prestigious awards—the Ida B. Gould Memorial Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1957); Albert Lasker Award (1958); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1963); Distinguished Award of the American Medical Association (1964); Oscar B. Hunter Award (1966); Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1966);[9] Passano Foundation Award (1967); and the Stouffer Prize (now the Novartis Award) for Hypertension Research in 1970. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971 and published his memoirs in 1988.

The American Heart Association Irvine H. Page Young Investigator Research Award Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine and the Irvine Page – Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award are named in his honor.

Later life[edit]

A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.[10]

Personal life[edit]

He was married to Beatrice Allen, a dancer, poet, and author of the book, The Bracelet. His sister was Ruth Page, a noted American ballet dancer. Page was also a gifted musician, a trait he passed on to his two sons, Christopher Page and Nicholas Page. Page lived in Cleveland, OH with his wife and children, summering in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod. His family home on the Cape is now owned and occupied by his granddaughter and great-grandchildren.

Death[edit]

Having retired to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, Page died suddenly on June 10, 1991, at the age of 90. He had been previously injured in an auto accident in March 1990 and suffered from poor health due to a prior stroke and a prior heart attack.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Dustan, HP (1990). "Irvine Page lecture. Legacies of Irvine H. Page". Journal of Hypertension Supplement. 8 (7): S29–34. PMID 2095393.
  • ^ Dustan HP Irvine Heinly Page. Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine The National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs.
  • ^ a b Frohlich ED, Dustan HP, Bumpus FM Irvine H. Page: 1901-1991. The Celebration of a Leader Archived 2020-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Hypertension 1991;18:443–445.
  • ^ "weill cornell medicine" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  • ^ a b Gifford, R. (January 1987). "Profiles in cardiology: Irvine h. page". Clinical Cardiology. 10 (1): 68–69. doi:10.1002/clc.4960100117. PMID 3545576.
  • ^ Rapport, MM; Green, AA; Page, IH (1948). "Serum vasoconstrictor (serotonin). IV. Isolation and characterization". J Biol Chem. 176 (3): 1243–1251. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)57137-4. PMID 18100415.
  • ^ Page, IH (1967). "The mosaic theory of arterial hypertension--its interpretation". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 10 (3): 325–33. doi:10.1353/pbm.1967.0031. PMID 6034593. S2CID 29576640.
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  • ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. Archived from the original on 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
  • ^ "Irvine H. Page, M.D. Papers 1917–1989". National Library of Medicine.
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