Hudson Hoagland
{{Short description|American neuroscientist}}
Hudson Hoagland (December 5, 1899 – March 4, 1982) was an American neuroscientist, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1961 to 1964.{{Cite web|title=Hudson Hoagland|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/hudson-hoagland|access-date=2021-09-30|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}
Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, he graduated from Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, and was a Guggenheim fellow.{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Hudson Hoagland|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/hudson-hoagland/|access-date=2021-09-30|language=en-US}} {{Cite journal|last=Robbins|first= Wallace Woodsome|title=Hudson Hoagland |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517698.pdf|journal=Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society|date=October 1982|volume=92|pages=239-241}} His scientific specialty was electroencephalography.{{Cite web|first=Hallowell|last=Davis|title=Hudson Hoagland as an EEG pioneer|url=https://www.ifcn.info/docs/tribute/Hoagland.pdf|website=www.ifcn.info}} He died in 1982 in Southboro, Massachusetts.
Legacy
In 1985, he co-founded the Worcester Foundation, now merged with the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The foundation funds biomedical research at Chan Medical School, a foundation that developed the birth control pill.{{Cite web|date=2020-01-13|title=Hudson Hoagland Society|url=https://www.umassmed.edu/giving/recognition/hhs/|access-date=2021-09-30|website=UMass Chan Medical School|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Hudson Hoagland Society announces annual grants to five UMMS researchers|url=https://www.massachusetts.edu/news/hudson-hoagland-society-announces-annual-grants-five-umms-researchers|access-date=2021-09-30|website=UMass System|language=en}}
Works
- {{cite journal|last=Hoagland|first=Hudson|date=July 1949|title=Schizophrenia and Stress|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schizophrenia-and-stress/ |journal=Scientific American|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0749-44}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hoagland|first=Hudson|title=Science and the New Humanism|journal=Science|year=1964|volume=143|pages=111-114|doi=10.1126/science.143.3602.111}}
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