Samuel J ames Meltzer.

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Samuel James Meltzer (March 22, 1851 November 7, 1920) was an
American physiologist, born in a village near Kaunas, then part of the
Russian Empire.
Meltzer was educated at the University of Knigsberg, studied
philosophy and medicine at the University of Berlin (MD, 1882), and in
the following year he emigrated to the United States, where he practiced
his profession in New York City, serving as consulting physician to
Harlem Hospital. In 1906 he became head of the department of
physiology and pharmacology in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research. He served as president of the Harvey Society, of the
Association for the Advancement of Clinical Research in 1909, and of
the Association of American Physiologists in 1915. During World War I,
Dr. Meltzer was a major in the Medical Reserve Corps, and when the
American Association for Thoracic Surgery was organized in 1918 he
was elected president. Dr. Meltzer was occupied in research in various
fields almost to the time of his death.
Meltzer and his teacher Hugo Kronecker were the first who studied (in
1883) oesophageal manometry in humans.
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^ Meltzer A. (2000). "Samuel J ames Meltzer, M.D. March 22, 1851 November 7, 1920" (http://www.ebmonline.org
/cgi/content/full/223/2/114). Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 223 (4): 114117.
doi:10.1046/j.1525-1373.2000.22316.x (http://dx.doi.org/10.1046%2Fj.1525-1373.2000.22316.x). PMID 3550812
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3550812).
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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir (http://www.nasonline.org/publications
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