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J. Walter Woodbury (1923-2017) was an American electrophysiologist who applied physical and mathematical techniques to experimentally elucidate the nature of electrical excitability, primarily in single cell preparations. He was also involved in the experimental and theoretical investigations of:  (1) The mechanisms of ion penetration through the ion channels in muscle membranes; (2) The regulation of cellular acid-base balance; and (3) The control of epileptic seizures by repetitive   Vagus nerve stimulation.

Biography
LINK TO JWW'S CV SOMEWHERE/SOMEHOW. J. Walter Woodbury was born in St. George, Utah and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Utah in 1943, and from 1943 to 1945 was a staff member of the MIT Radiation Laboratory. Returning to the University of Utah after the end of WWII, he received a Master of Science degree in Physiology in 1947 followed by a Doctorate of Philosophy in Physiology in 1950, also from the University of Utah. In 1950 Woodbury joined the faculty of the University of Washington as an Instructor in the Department of Physiology, and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1952. Advancing through the academic ranks he became a Full Professor in 1962, a position he held until 1973. Following a sabbatical at the University of Utah 1972-73, Woodbury accepted a position as Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Utah, and remained there until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1993, a position he held until his death.

Work
In the course of his doctoral studies Woodbury published several papers    and additionally  spent time  with Gilbert Ling at the University of Chicago learning to pull Ling-Gerard micro-electrodes and measuring the membrane potential of frog sartorius muscle.

After finishing his PhD, he joined the Physiology faculty of the University of Washington (Seattle), where he used his experience in intracellular recording to study the membrane potentials in many different types of cells:  spinal cord (1952 REF 6 & 7), frog sartorius muscle (1953), uterine muscle cells (1956), pregnant uterine muscle (1954 REF 8, 11), frog ventricular muscle REF 13, human heart (1957 REF 10 & 12), and cultured chick embryo heart muscle cells. Especially important was his use of a flexibly mounted ultramicroelectrode to record intracellularly from moving tissues, such as the first ever intracellular recording from the intact beating human heart (Woodbury and Brady, Science, 1956 REF 10, 12). Woodbury and Patton presented some of the first intracellular records taken from mammalian spinal elements, including motoneurons (Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 1952 REF 7). This work was little known, however, with the usual credit for the first intracellular recording from spinal motoneurons going to Sir John Eccles.

Go on to discuss other research: highlight the gap junction work with Wayne Crill, and also discuss the Erying rate theory work on channel kinetics.

Finally also mention the Dixon M. Woodbury vagal stimulation work in the last couple of his working years (WHAT WAS THE COMPANY SUPPORTING THEM?)

Woodbury felt (LINK TO HIS SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY ) his most important contribution to neuroscience was popular elucidation of the work of Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley that first appeared in (CITE THE 1960 VERSION OF RUCH AND FULTON.)

Publications
Selected articles