Bodil Mimi Schmidt-Nielsen

Courtesy Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, Gainesville. In the early years of my research, I focused primarily on water metabolism of desert animals. Then on comparative studies of kidney physiology, the urinary concentrating mechanism and the renal handling of urea. I found that the kidney does not passively handle urea; rather excretion is actively regulated by the tubular epithelium. One of my papers published in 1955 was this year chosen and published as a milestone in renal physiology. From 1980-1985, we described and recorded the renal pelvic contractions and their effect on flow of fluid in the compartments of the renal papilla. When I retired in 1986 I wrote a biography of August and Marie Krogh, published by Oxford University Press (1995) and Munksgaard (in Danish, 1997).