Louis Harry Newburgh
Louis Harry Newburgh (June 17, 1883 July 17, 1956) was an American physician and medical educator. He spent most of his career teaching and researching at the University of Michigan. Newburgh was involved in many early experiments and discoveries with obesity and renal diseases. He made significant contributions to the field with his level of meticulousness and detail to the scientific method. Early life and education Newburgh was born on June 17, 1883, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father had desires to become a doctor but became a local businessman in the tobacco industry to support his family. Louis Newburgh attended Harvard in 1901 and received his BA and then his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1908. He studied abroad in Vienna in Hans Eppinger's clinics to return and start his career in clinical investigations. In Boston, he published papers and began his journey into dietetics. After Boston, in 1916, he accepted a full-time position as Assistant Professor at Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Medical and professional career In 1918, Dr. Newburgh was promoted to Associate Professor and then Clinical Investigation Professor in 1922. During this time, Newburg started to develop an interest in the renal