A. J. Carlson

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Anton Julius Carlson
Born	January 29, 1875(1875-01-29) Sweden
Died	September 2, 1956
Nationality	Swedish-American
Fields	Physiology
Institutions	University of Chicago American Physiological Society AAAS

Anton Julius Carlson (January 29, 1875–September 2, 1956) was a Swedish American physiologist. Carlson was born in Sweden and came to the USA in 1891. He received a doctorate in physiology at Stanford in 1902 and began working at the University of Chicago in 1904. While Carlson was at Chicago, he conducted experiments on Fred Vlcek^[1], similar to those conducted on Alexis St. Martin by William Beaumont, regarding his gastric fistula. These included illuminating his stomach with electric lights in order to observe digestion. Carlson became chairman of the physiology department at the University of Chicago in 1916 and remained chairman until 1940.

Carlson was president of the American Physiological Society from 1923 to 1925 and president of the AAAS in 1944. In 1953, Carlson was the first person to receive the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award^[2].

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^ Contributions to the physiology of the stomach.—I. The character of the movements of the empty stomach in man, A. J. Carlson, American Journal of Physiology 31, #3 (December 2, 1912), pp. 151–168.
^ Humanists of the Year, web page at the American Humanist Association web site, accessed January 11, 2007.

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Preceded by Isaiah Bowman	President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1944	Succeeded by James B. Conant

Persondata
NAME	Carlson, Anton Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Swedish-American physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	September 2, 1956
PLACE OF DEATH