HOMER w. SMITH is onc of the outstanding figures in 

 modem physiology. Presently Chairman of the Depart- 

 ment and Professor of Physiology at the New York Uni- 

 versity School of Medicine, he has undertaken extensive 

 researches on the structure and function of the kidney, 

 and has written, in addition to numerous scientific arti- 

 cles, the following key works on the subject: The Physi- 

 ology of the Kidney; The Kidney: Structure and Func- 

 tion in Health and Disease; and Principles of Rerml 

 Physiology. 



Bom in Denver, Colorado, in 1895, ^^ prepared for a 

 career in medicine at the University of Denver where he 

 received his A.B. degree, and went on to Johns Hopkins 

 University for his Sc.D. degree. As a National Research 

 Council Fellow in Physiology, Dr. Smith studied for two 

 years at the Harvard Medical School. A recipient of the 

 Passano and Lasker awards, and a former Guggenheim 

 fellow, he has also been awarded the Presidential Medal 

 for Merit. 



Dr. Smith is a member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, the American Physiological Society, the Ameri- 

 can Society for Biological Chemists, the Association for 

 American Physicians, the Society for Experimental Biol- 

 ogy and Medicine. Formerly president of the Mount 

 Desert Island Biological Laboratory, he is presently a 

 trustee of the Bermuda Laboratory for Biological Re- 

 search. 



He is also the author of Kamongo: The Lungfish and 

 the Padre, a novel; The End of Illusion, and Man and 

 His Gods. 



