Dr. Maes Dies

DR. JULIAN P. MAES, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Medical School, died August 7 at Malines, Belgium, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Maes and his family had sailed on the SS Argentina in July to visit his parents and to collect research data left at the University of Brussels in 1941 when the Germans invaded the Lowlands.

Born at Malines on June 5, 1911, of Belgian parents, Dr. Maes was educated at the University o£ Brussels, where he received his M.D. in 1935. He was awarded the Prix Fleurice Mercier in 1936 and made Laureat du Concours Universitaire, Belgium, the same year.

From 1936 to 1938 he was a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation and served as a Research Fellow in the Departments of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Returning to Belgium, he was an instructor at the Laboratoire de Patholgie General, University of Brussels Medical School in 1938.

Dr. Maes returned to this country in 1941-42 as visiting scientist on the Belgian American Educational Foundation and worked at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and at the New School for Social Research, New York City. With the outbreak of war he remained in the United States, first as an instructor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Vermont Medical School in 1942. He began his position at Dartmouth on July 1, 1943.

He was a member of the Societe de Biolgie (Belgium), the Societe de Chimie Biologique (Paris), Sigma Xi, the A.A.A.S. and the American Physiological Society. In addition he published fourteen medical treatises during his career. Dr. Maes is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Orbean, a son, Michel, and a daughter, Daniele.

DR. JULIAN P. MAES