Lewis Victor Heilbrunn


Lewis Victor Heilbrunn was an influential American biologist.
Heilbrunn was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927, and on his return from Europe began teaching
at the University of Pennsylvania, a position he would hold for 30 years. His Outline of General Physiology became a standard foundational text in the field.

Selected works

The colloid chemistry of protoplasm, Berlin, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1928An outline of general physiology, Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1937 Protoplasmatologia; Handbuch der Protoplasmaforschung, Vienna, Springer, 1953The dynamics of living protoplasm, New York, Academic Press 1956