Dr. John Richard Pappenheimer (October 25, 1915 – December 26, 2007) was a professor of Physiology at Harvard University and the thirty seventh president of the American Physiological Society from 1964 until 1965.[1]
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 Columbia University and Beatrice (Leo) Pappenheimer. His siblings were Dr. Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr. (1908–1995) and Anne Pappenheimer Forbes (1911–1992). He married Helena Palmer in 1949 and they would have two sons, Will and Rick, and one daughter, Rosamond Pappenheimer Zimmermann.