Publications by Dr. Albert P. Mathews by Mathews, Albert P - 1893 - 1925

1893 - 1925. First edtions.

BOUND COLLECTION OF 53 OFFPRINTS BY ALBERT MATHEWS, AMERICAN PIONEER PHYSICAL CHEMIST, FROM THE LIBRARY OF EMMETT CARMICHAEL, CHAIR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT UAB 1927 - 1966.

10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine with owner's name (Emmett B. Carmichael) bottom of spine, bookplate of Emmett B. Carmichael to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 53 offprints with printed paper covers bound in, covers worn, contents unmarked, crisp, overall very good. Mathews is sole author of almost all papers, which span a wide range of disciplines including physiology, pharmacology, cell biology, embryology, biochemistry, metabolism, toxicology, evolution, and philosophy of science. Notable are titles such as Adaptation from the Point of View of the Physiologist (1913), The Value of Research (1915), The Nature of Disease and of its Natural Therapy (1922), Mathematics--The Reduction of all Physical Dimensions to those of Space and Time (1923), and The Mechanistic Conception of LIfe (1924).

ALBERT PRESCOTT MATHEWS (1871 - 1957) was granted his Ph.D. degree by Columbia University in 1898. He then traveled to Germany, where he came under the influence of the German biochemist and Nobel prize-wiener Albrecht Kossel. Mathews published about one hundred papers on a wide variety of biochemical and biophysical subjects. The book on Physiological Chemistry, first published in 1915, was the principal American text for nearly three decades. At M.I.T, he came under the influence of William T. Sedgwick, whose textbook General Biology, written in collaboration with E. B. \Vilsoo, first appeared in 1886. Mathews joined the faculty of the Medical School of Tufts College, and later at Harvard Medical School. He went to the University of Chicago in 1901, finally becoming head of the department of physiology, later head of physiological chemistry, a position that he held from 1907 to 1915. In 1918 be accepted the position of Andrew Carnegie professor of biochemistry and chairman of the department at the University of Cincinnati—a position held until his retirement in 1939. Over the next 20 years his studies dealt with salt effects in cells and with the physical chemistry of living systems; for these studies he used fish, sea urchin, and starfish eggs as material. This work was carried out at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where Mathews spent his summers for many years, as an associate and intimate friend of the great biologists who made that laboratory renowned throughout the world. These included T.H Morgan, E.B. Wilson, E.G. Conklin, and Jacques Loeb.

PROVENANCE: EMMETT B. CARMICHAEL (1895 - 1985) came to Alabama in 1927 as assistant professor and chair of the biochemistry department at the two-year Medical College of Alabama, then located on the Tuscaloosa campus of The University of Alabama. When the college was relocated to Birmingham in 1945 and became a four-year institution, Dr. Carmichael transferred with his department and remained chair of biochemistry. At the time of his retirement in 1966, Carmichael, who had devoted almost 40 years of his life to the college, was named a Professor Emeritus and Assistant Dean Emeritus. He remained an active force on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for many years.