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  Loeb
Jacques Loeb was born in the small Rhenish town of Mayen in 1859.
Although Loeb made many notable contributions to biological theory and research in the later part of his career, [33] his place in the history of behaviorism derives almost entirely from the influence he exerted during his sojourn at the University of Chicago.
Loeb was full of enthusiasm for the application of physiology and biochemistry to the problems of associative memory.
www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/loeb.html   (3237 words)

  
 Psychology History
Jacques Loeb was born of a Jewish family in Rhine Providence of Prussia in 1859.
Loeb's father was a prosperous merchant, an ardent Francophine and an admirer of the Enlightenment and French Revolution, he encouraged Jacques to read eighteenth century classics of free thought.
Loeb argued that the consciousness among animal's was by association of memory, which is when and animal learns to act to a desired stimuli in a certain or desired way.
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 Jacques Loeb Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Born in Mayen, Germany, in 1859, Jacques Loeb, born Isaak Loeb, was the first of two sons born to Benedict and Barbara Isay Loeb.
Loeb saw this approach as a way to answer his philosophical questions about free will and viewed animal tropism as a way to see if free will could be controlled.
Loeb's work on artificial parthenogenesis gained him fame in both the scientific community and the popular press and established him as a major figure in biology.
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 Jacques Loeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacques Loeb (April 7, 1859 – February 11, 1924) was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.
Born in Mayen, Prussia, he was educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M. He took a postgraduate course at the universities of Strasburg and Berlin, and in 1886 became assistant at the physiological institute of the University of Würzburg, remaining there till 1888, when he went in a similar capacity to Strasburg.
It was at MBL that Loeb did his most famous experiment, on artificial parthenogenesis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Loeb   (449 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Loeb
Peretz, Isaac Loeb PERETZ, ISAAC LOEB [Peretz, Isaac Loeb], 1852-1915, Jewish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, b.
Loeb, James LOEB, JAMES [Loeb, James] 1867-1933, American banker and philanthropist, b.
Loeb, Jacques LOEB, JACQUES [Loeb, Jacques], 1859-1924, American physiologist, b.
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 Other LOEBs
Moïses LOEB was born in 1842, probably in Boppard, and in 1869 married Clara ADLER (born in Lahnstein).
Hermann LOEB was born in Boppard in 1844.
Jeanette LOEB from Amsterdam, granddaughter of Ernst was the youngest of 14 children born in 1878 in Düren in Germany.
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 Chapter 2 (1900-1918)
Loeb was interested in control of animal movement, but Jennings was concerned with a more traditional exploration of the diverse mechanisms whereby organisms actively adapt to their surroundings.
Loeb's concrete research program was adopted directly from botanist Julius Sachs who had previously identified and named heliocentric tropisms in plants (Pauly, 1981).
That is, Loeb attempted to describe the so-called psychological processes of lower animals in terms of empirically identifiable and ultimately chemical-mechanical processes (Loeb, 1900).
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 Kay Guide: A Survey of the Life Sciences
Perhaps the greatest influence of all was exerted by Simon Flexner*, who had made his mark in bacteriology and pathology before the turn of the century; the extensive collection of his papers at the APS provides a wealth of information on his scientific contributions.
The German émigré Jacques Loeb**, on the other hand, shunned administrative entanglements; his impact on general physiology was made primarily through his research and his charismatic personality.
An arch-determinist, Loeb**, unlike Lillie**, approached physiology as a purely mechanistic process, completely reducible to the laws of physics and chemistry, and his investigations on fertilization and phototropism were aimed at the control of life.
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 Jacques Loeb (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Having received an M.D. degree from the University of Strasbourg (1884), Loeb began work in biology at the University of Würzburg (1886-88) and continued at the University of Strasbourg (1888-90) and the Naples biological station (1889-91).
Loeb's work was significant in showing that the initiation of cell division in fertilization was controlled chemically and was in effect separate from the transmission of hereditary traits.
Loeb also is remembered for his work on the physiology of the brain, animal tropisms (involuntary orientations), regeneration of tissue, and the duration of life.
www.loebtree.com.cob-web.org:8888 /jacques.html   (361 words)

  
 Kay Guide: Secondary group
Although Loeb preferred not to participate in administrative activities and avoided bureaucratic entanglements, he was one of the most visible scientists of his generation.
The material on Loeb in the Osterhout Papers* (2 files, 1909-1922) includes correspondence from Loeb's stay at Berkeley, which is as informative on Loeb as on Berkeley and Pacific Grove.
In 1915 Northrop joined Jacques Loeb** at the Rockefeller Institute, collaborating on a variety of projects, but his interests were increasingly moving toward the biochemistry of viruses, bacteriophage, and enzymes.
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 Bibliographic Essays: Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century
The Prussian-born American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), a long-time investigator at the Rockefeller Institute and a close professional friend of such figures as T. Morgan, Boss Harrison, J. McKeen Cattell, and W.J. Osterhout, set the style of experimental and quantitative biology that influenced a whole generation of biologists, especially in the United States.
Loeb championed what he called "the mechanistic conception of life"--the title of a major address he gave in 1911 and of a book of essays collected in 1912 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1964).
A new biography of Loeb is Philip J. Pauly's Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987).
www.hssonline.org /teach_res/essays/allen/allenp6.html   (1687 words)

  
 Loeb, Jacques - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LOEB, JACQUES [Loeb, Jacques], 1859-1924, American physiologist, b.
He came to the United States in 1891 and taught at Bryn Mawr, the Univ. of Chicago, and the Univ. of California.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Loeb, Jacques" at HighBeam.
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 Creating Academic Basic Science (A History of the UCSF School of Medicine: Chapter 2 - Affiliated Schools at Parnassus ...
The anatomy lab developed by Flint in the Medical School building was seen as a national exemplar for anatomy instruction, and the lab was the subject of a feature article in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin.
A final and crucial basic science recruitment was made in 1902 when Dr. Jacques Loeb of the University of Chicago accepted a joint appointment as member of Colleges of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley and in Physiology at the Medical Department in SF.
Loeb was to do research in addition to teaching medical and college students, and Regent Rudolph Spreckels and Dr. Max Herzstein endowed Physiology Hall at the Berkeley campus and a private lab in Pacific Grove for Dr. Loeb's research with marine animals.
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 John Broadus Watson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was in this context that he met Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), a biologist who not only made a number of independent contributions to objective psychology but also was exerted a critical influence on the direction of Watson's nascent objectivism.
Through an understanding of response mechanisms, Loeb argued, scientists could learn to govern organic behavior much as engineers control the behavior of inorganic materials, and to achieve this understanding, he thought it necessary to focus on the reactions of many different types of organisms.
The context of this discussion is an analysis of the debate between Loeb and Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) regarding the nature of invertebrate behavior.
www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/watson.html   (3282 words)

  
 ALSRL-014 (Alsace-Lorraine Research List Archive)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gabriel LOEB and Caroline BORACH's children were Marie, born about June 1845; Melanie, born about 1846; Raphael, born about 1848; Emilie, born 9 June 1849; Ben, born after 1851; Florine, born May 1865; Isadore born after 1851; Leopold born after 1851, Jacques born 31 March 1855; and Michel LOEB, born 22 May 1853.
Jacques LOEB was born in Reichshoffen, Alsace Lorraine.
Jacques LOEB and Selena WEIL's children, all born at Montgomery, Alabama, were: Hubert LOEB, born 22 April 1886; twins Cecile and Lucien, born 24 September 1888; Blanche, born 5 April 1892 and Rapael LOEB, born 23 February 1894.
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 ISHN 2006 Annual Meeting -- Abstract 39   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Already after his medical studies at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Strasburg and his M. D.-graduation - 1884 - under Friedrich Goltz (1834-1902), the experimental biologist Jacques Loeb had become interested in de- and regenerative problems of the brain.
To further pursue his scientific aims, Loeb moved to the Naples Zoological Station between 1890 and 1891, where he conducted various experimental series on regenerative phenomena in sea animals.
Yet, it is impossible to conceive of Loeb's groundbreaking experiments without taking the wider scientific network of teachers, colleagues as well as local milieus into account, in which he worked in, as they also exerted a strong influence on a growing group of collaborators, neuroscientific peers and research pupils.
www.bri.ucla.edu /nha/ishn/ab39-2006.htm   (367 words)

  
 parthenogenesis — FactMonster.com
In 1900, Jacques Loeb accomplished the first clear case of artificial parthenogenesis when he pricked unfertilized frog eggs with a needle and found that in some cases normal embryonic development ensued.
Artificial parthenogenesis has since been achieved in almost all major groups of animals, although it usually results in incomplete and abnormal development.
Jacques Loeb - Loeb, Jacques, 1859–1924, American physiologist, b.
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 Obituary: Jacques Loeb Blum / Food broker known for devotion to family, friends
Whether volunteering to care for abandoned and abused animals or hopping a plane to Guatemala with his daughter to help her adopt a child, Jacques Loeb Blum demonstrated love and concern for others.
His father, the late Jacques Loeb Blum Sr., was president of Gimbels' Pittsburgh stores and vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue.
He shared with his father an enjoyment of horseback riding and won blue ribbons as a youth for his skill.
www.post-gazette.com /obituaries/20030607blumobit2p2.asp   (454 words)

  
 April 7 in Psychology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Loeb applied the concept of orienting responses of plants, called tropisms, to animal behavior, resulting in a mechanistic explanation of animal behavior.
Comparative psychology was strongly influenced by Loeb's work.
Malinowski's studies in cultural anthropology contributed to the psychological appreciation of the importance of social influences on behavior and moral judgment.
www.cwu.edu /~warren/calendar/cal0407.html   (341 words)

  
 Selected Twentieth Century Works: L (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Loeb, a naturalized American biologist, became a major figure in the study of animal tropisms.
On the nature and seat of the electromotive forces manifested by living organs [by] Jacques Loeb and Reinhard Beutner.
First collected edition of Loeb's important works on heliotropism, geotropism and galvanotropism in animals, and his work on embryology, including his experiments on artificial parthenogenesis, regeneration and the prolongation of life.
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 Loeb & Loeb LLP - News and Articles
Loeb & Loeb Obtains Key Victory for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. (MGM) in Pink Panther Case
MGM Pictures Inc., in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Judge Dean D. Pregerson granted summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims seeking a declaration that they owned an interest in the renewal term copyright in the motion picture The Pink Panther, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner and Capucine.
MGM was represented by Jonathan Zavin, Jacques Rimokh and Sunny Park in the New York office of Loeb and Loeb, and David Grossman in the Los Angeles office of the firm.
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 AllRefer.com - Jacques Loeb (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Jacques Loeb (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jacques Loeb[lOb] Pronunciation Key, 1859–1924, American physiologist, b.
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 © The American Physiological Society - Walter Eugene Garrey
Walter E. Garrey, president of APS during its Semicentennial Celebration in Baltimore in 1938, was born in Wisconsin and received his initial training in physiology with Jacques Loeb at the University of Chicago.
In 1899 he assisted Loeb in organizing the first course in physiology at Woods Hole and remained an instructor in the course until 1925.
Garrey continued his training in Berlin and Paris and received a medical degree at Rush in 1909.
www.the-aps.org /about/pres/introweg.htm   (322 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 89020447   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Publisher description for Controlling life : Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology / Philip J. Pauly.
The first U.S. nominee for the Nobel Prize, Jacques Loeb was trained in experimental physiology in Germany, joined the biology faculty of the new University of Chicago in 1892, later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to the Rockefeller Institute.
Loeb's career provides the vehicle, in this book, for an examination of the foundations of biotechnology.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal041/89020447.html   (128 words)

  
 Lefalophodon: Jacques Loeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Loeb was one of the earliest and most prominent Jewish biologists in the United States.
This was widely celebrated as showing that science would eventually come to control the fundamental processes of biology.
However, Loeb's results were challenged by Lillie and Just after Loeb moved on to protein chemistry in the 1920's.
www.nceas.ucsb.edu /~alroy/lefa/Loeb.html   (90 words)

  
 Mechanistic Conception of Life: Biological Essays - LOEB, JACQUES (1859-1924)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LOEB, JACQUES (1859-1924) Mechanistic Conception of Life: Biological Essays
Some dust-soiling to the first few leaves, else a very good copy with library bookplate and rubber stamp to the title-page and a few other leaves, no external markings.
Loeb's most-read book and the most important exposition of his monist-mechanist ideas for a lay audience.
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 Thomas Hunt Morgan
In 1891 Morgan replaced Wilson at Bryn Mawr (Wilson had moved to Columbia), where he met Jacques Loeb, and stayed until 1904.
He worked closely with members of the Entwicklungsmechanik school, including Jacques Loeb, and pursued research in experimental embryology.
It was probably Frank Lutz, a geneticist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, who introduced Morgan to the fruitfly Drosophila.
www.cshl.edu /public/History/scientists/morgan.html   (661 words)

  
 US: Stanford University and fish 11.30.03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Interestingly, Zinsser also came to the west coast and was Head of Department of Bacteriology at Stanford from 1910 to 1913, but he returned to the east after 3 years.
There were a lot of fishy characters in the Romanic Languages Department, but otherwise I cannot figure out why Loeb singled out that department as a center of philoichthy.
I suspect that Loeb's remark was inspired by the creation of the Hopkins Marine Station.
wais.stanford.edu /USA/us_StanfordFish(113003).html   (434 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: JOEL E. COHEN
JOEL E. Donald Fleming's new edition of Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life explains both the former stellar position and the present eclipse of the biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924).
When the first edition of this book appeared in 1912, Loeb ranged in poplar opinion with Galileo, Newton, and Darwin: he was a great-scientific innovator, who applied the principles of his science to the problems of ordinary men.
This second edition of Loeb's most famous book-recalls an alternative to today's canon that the principles of scientific inquiry may be legitimately applied only to the defined problems of science.
www.thecrimson.com /writer.aspx?ID=5789   (4276 words)

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