Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen

Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, and Barbara Wagner.
Born	6 November 1918 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	27 April 2015 (aged 96)
Spouse(s)	Knut Schmidt-Nielsen ​ ​ (m. 1939⁠–⁠1966)​ (divorced) Roger G. Chagnon ​ ​ (m. 1968⁠–⁠2003)​ (his death)
Scientific career
Institutions	Duke University Case Western Reserve University MDI Biological Laboratory

Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen (3 November 1918 – 27 April 2015) was a Danish-born American physiologist, who became the first woman president of the American Physiological Society in 1975.

Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1918, the youngest of four children of two eminent physiologists, the Nobel Laureate August Krogh and Marie Krogh.^[1]

In 1939, Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen married Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, a fellow physiologist, and received doctoral degrees in Dentistry, Odontology, and Physiology from the University of Copenhagen. Knut and Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen became a prominent physiology team at Duke University but divorced in 1966. Bodil became Department Chair at Case Western Reserve University and later devoted her career full-time to research at MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine.^[2][3]

Schmidt-Nielsen died in April 2015 at the age of 96.^[4]

The Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award honors a member of the American Physiological Society who is judged to have made outstanding contributions to physiological research and demonstrated dedication and commitment to excellence in training of young physiologists.^[5]

• The Solubility of tooth substance in relation to the composition of saliva (Supplementum; v.2, 1946)
• The resourcefulness of nature in physiological adaptation to the environment (Physiologist 1(2): 4-20, 1958)
• August and Marie Krogh: Lives in Science (1995)