Awards and Honors

Abstract

The Bowditch Lecture (2), named in honor of the first president of the American Physiological Society (APS, the Society) has been given annually at the APS fall meeting since 1956. The initial funds for the lecture were supplied by an anonymous contribution resulting from the initiative of L. N. Katz. APS Council voted in the fall of 1955 that the funds be used to furnish an honorarium for a lectureship at the fall meeting, to be known as the Henry Pickering Bowditch Lecture. Council’s approval of the plan was to be contingent on the contributor’s agreement. By tradition the Bowditch Lecturer, who is to be under forty years of age, has been named by the president of the Society from among APS members who have done outstanding work. The first Bowditch Lecture, “Role of the red blood corpuscles in the regulation of renal blood flow and glomular filtration rate,” was given by John R. Pappenheimer, Jr., at the Eighth Fall Meeting in Rochester,. New York (1956). (See Table 1 for a list of Bowditch Lectures, 1956–86.) The Bowditch Lecture is now supported by the unrestricted bequest of Caroline tum Suden.