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A brief and subjective history of contractility

Manuel F. Morales

Manuel F. Morales

Department of Physiology, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, California 94115

was born in San Pedro, Honduras. He received his early education from his parents and attended high school in the USA. He received his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. (Mathematics/Physics) from Harvard, and his Ph.D. (Physiology/Biophysics) from the University of California, Berkeley. During WWII, he served in the US Navy. Dr. Morales has taught and done research at the University of Chicago, the Naval Medical Research Institute, Dartmouth, and the University of California, San Francisco; presently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Pacific, San Francisco. Dr. Morales was the eighth Career Investigator of the American Heart Association; he was also a President of the Biophysical Society, the Founding Editor of the Annual Review of Biophysics, and a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Morales is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and of the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of the Pacific.

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First published: January 1995
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