August and Marie Krogh: Lives in Science

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Introduction....Pages 3-4
Ancestry....Pages 5-9
Childhood in Grenaa (1874–1890)....Pages 10-16
School Years in Aarhus (1891–1893)....Pages 17-21
Becoming a Zoologist (1893–1895)....Pages 22-31
Becoming a Physiologist (1895–1899)....Pages 32-43
The Beginning of Zoophysiology (1899–1904)....Pages 44-59
August and Marie (1904)....Pages 60-70
Marriage and the Seegen Prize (1904–1906)....Pages 71-77
The Oxygen Secretion Controversy (1906–1910)....Pages 78-94
The Zoophysiological Laboratory and the Beginning of Exercise Physiology (1910–1916)....Pages 95-111
Capillaries and the Nobel Prize (1916–1922)....Pages 112-125
The Insulin Story (1922–1925)....Pages 126-138
The Happiest Years (1923–1938)....Pages 139-153
Capillary Function and the Contractility Controversy (1923–1936)....Pages 154-162
New Fields of Investigation (1928–1943)....Pages 163-172
Exercise Physiology (1918–1944)....Pages 173-184
The Introduction of Isotopes (1935–1944)....Pages 185-192
Dark Clouds (1938–1944)....Pages 193-208
Exile in Sweden (1944–1945)....Pages 209-217
The Private Laboratory in Gentofte (1945–1947)....Pages 218-228
Last Scientific Work (1945–1949)....Pages 229-238
Epilogue....Pages 239-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-295