Carl Goresky

{{Short description|Canadian physician and scientist}}

Carl Arthur Goresky, OC (August 25, 1932 – March 21, 1996) was a Canadian physician and scientist at the Montreal General Hospital. His theoretical treatment of the transport of substances through intact organs, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis, led the basis for the understanding of events within the microvasculature.

In November 1995, Goresky was inducted into the Order of Canada as Officer.

Selected publications

  • {{cite journal

|first=Carl Arthur

|last=Goresky

|title=A linear method for determining liver sinusoidal and extravascular volumes

|journal=American Journal of Physiology

|year=1963

|volume=204

|issue=4

|pages=626–40

|doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1963.204.4.626

|pmid=13949263}}

  • {{cite journal

|first=Carl Arthur

|last=Goresky

|title=Biological barriers and medicine

|journal=Clinical and Investigative Medicine

|year=1995

|volume=18

|issue=6

|pages=484–501

|pmid=8714792}}

References

  • {{cite journal

|journal=Clinical and Investigative Medicine

|vauthors=Goldsmith HL, Schwab AJ, Gold P |title=Carl Arthur Goresky. August 25, 1932 to March 21, 1996

|year=1996

|volume=19

|issue=3

|pages=144–148

|pmid=8724817

}}[http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cim/vol-19/0144.htm]

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Category:1932 births

Category:1996 deaths

Category:Canadian medical researchers

Category:Canadian physiologists

Category:Officers of the Order of Canada

Category:Academic staff of McGill University

Category:Anglophone Quebec people

Category:Physicians of Montreal General Hospital

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