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Fred S. Grodins was a pioneer in the application of control theory to study biological control systems. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and obtained all of his college training at Northwestern University. This consisted of a B.S. in Chemistry in 1937, a M.S. in Physiology in 1940, a M.D. in 1942, and Ph. D. in Physiology in 1944. Fred interned at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. This was followed by two years of active duty in the U.S. Army Air Force. After the war, Fred returned to Chicago to become Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In 1947 he returned to Northwestern to become Associate Professor of Physiology and Abbott Professor of Physiology in 1951. Fred remained at Northwestern until 1967 when he left to become the founding chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. In 1986 Fred retired from this position and became Emeritus Professor until his death. Summarized below are some of the major contributions Fred made to modeling and control of breathing. Personal recollections of this remarkable individual are also given.
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Yamashiro, S.M. (1992). Modelling Pioneer: Fred S. Grodins (1915–1989). In: Honda, Y., Miyamoto, Y., Konno, K., Widdicombe, J.G. (eds) Control of Breathing and Its Modeling Perspective. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9847-0_1
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