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Steven Michael Horvath
September 15, 1911 - March 21, 2007
Steven Michael Horvath was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 15,
1911. In 1930 he enrolled at Oberlin College to study chemistry and after
one year transferred to Miami (Ohio) University where he earned a B.A.
degree in chemistry and physical education in 1934 and an M.S. in physiology
in 1935. After two years at Ohio State University (1935-1937), he went to
Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in physiology and biology in 1942.
As a student Horvath held research and teaching assistantships at the
Woods Hole Biology Laboratory and Miami (Ohio) University. At Harvard he
worked in the Fatigue Laboratory under the direction of David Bruce Dill,
whose daughter, Elizabeth, Horvath married in 1940.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Horvath held a variety of medical research and
teaching positions: director of physiological research at the Massachusetts
State Hospital for the Insane (1939-1942); on the faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania and the State University of Iowa (1949-1958); and, head of
the Department of Physiology at Landenau Hospital in Philadelphia
(1958-1961). He was a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, in 1958-1959 and at Jefferson Medical College in 1959-1961.
In 1961 Horvath joined the faculty of the Department of Physical and
Health Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he
helped establish the Institute of Environmental Stress and served as its
director (1962-1984). Horvath also worked on the proposal to establish the
Center for Aging Research at UCSB.
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