1920-1965, inclusive

Personal name, Geiling, E. M. K. (Eugene Maximilian Karl), 1891-1971

Eugene M. K. Geiling was born in Orange Free State, South Africa. He received his B.A. in 1911 from the University of South Africa and his M.S. in 1915 and Ph.D. in 1917 from the University of Illinois. In 1923, he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Geiling was a faculty member in pharmacology at Johns Hopkins from 1921 until 1935, when he joined the faculty of the department of pharmacology at the University of Chicago. Known for his studies of the pituitary gland, he participated with John Jacob Abel in research that led to the crystallization of insulin. At the University of Chicago he developed the first "atomic farm" for the production of radioactively labeled plant drugs such as digitalis and morphine. Geiling was also a medical officer with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1921-1935