| renal physiology between two wars: the contributions of dr. harvey lester white. | harvey lester white (1896-1977) graduated from washington university (st. louis) school of medicine and subsequently spent his entire professional career in the school's department of physiology. white's interest in the function of the kidney was evident early in his academic career when he pioneered research related to renal physiology. his first papers dealt with studies of renal tubular function (1923). he performed what appear to represent the first micropuncture studies in the kidney of nec ... | 2002 | 12097737 |