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Bully for Science! The FASEB Centennial (1912–2012)
Author(s) -
Weissmann Gerald
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fj.12-0101ufm
Subject(s) - courtesy , art history , state (computer science) , classics , history , art , law , computer science , political science , algorithm
FASEB was founded in the course of an “informal dinner and smoker” at the Colonial Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 31, 1912. Three representatives, each, of The American Physiological Society (APS), the American Society of Biological Chemists (ASBC), and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), agreed to form a federation, founded to “ensure rapid and clear communication among scientists.” (5). Its initial charge was to hold a yearly joint meeting, to publish its proceedings “under one cover”, and to share the expenses of publication “pro rata according to the membership of each society” (6). The Society for Experimental Pathology signed on, and by the time of its first annual meeting in William Jennings Bryan on the podium, ca. 1910. Image courtesy U.S. Library of Congress. Theodore Roosevelt receiving honorary J.D. degree at Oxford, June 7, 1910. Cartoon by Spy. Image courtesy Art Resource.