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Max Kleiber, the Glossary

Max Kleiber (4 January 1893 – 5 January 1976) was a Swiss agricultural biologist, born and educated in Zürich, Switzerland.^[1]

11 relations: Basal metabolic rate, Doctor of Science, ETH Zurich, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Kleiber's law, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Plant, Privatdozent, University of California, Davis, Zurich.
20th-century Swiss biologists
Swiss biologists

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.

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Doctor of Science

A Doctor of Science (Scientiae Doctor; most commonly abbreviated DSc or ScD) is a science doctorate awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.

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ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Kleiber's law, named after Max Kleiber for his biology work in the early 1930s, is the observation that, for the vast majority of animals, an animal's metabolic rate scales to the power of the animal's mass.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954

Two hundred and forty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954.

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Molecular and Cellular Biology

Molecular and Cellular Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of molecular and cellular biology.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Privatdozent

Privatdozent (for men) or Privatdozentin (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualifications that denote an ability (facultas docendi) and permission to teach (venia legendi) a designated subject at the highest level.

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