Medicine: Mark of Merit

From his neat, gold-rimmed spectacles, reassuring pipe, and dignified classroom smile, Eugene DuBois is easily spotted as a professor. It is harder to guess that he is an outstanding physiologist whose researches made possible medicine's standard basal metabolism test.

In Atlantic City last week, the exclusive (225 members) Association of American Physicians took signal note of Dr. DuBois' work by awarding him the Kober Medal. Before it hands out its only award, the Association thinks not twice but many times: among past winners have been such famed medical men as George Minot, William Welch and Theobald Smith.

Eugene DuBois (rhymes with new choice)...

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