Charles Wilson Greene

Charles Wilson Greene (1866 - 1947) was an American professor of physiology and pharmacology, born at Crawford Co., Indiana. He graduated from De Pauw University Normal School in 1889, from Leland Stanford in 1892, and from Johns Hopkins (Ph.D.) in 1898. He taught at DePauw normal and preparatory schools in 1889-91, and at Stanford University between 1891 and 1900, when he became professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Missouri. From 1901 to 1911 he also carried on investigations for the United States Bureau of Fisheries. His researches covered the structure and function of phosphorescent organs in the toadfish, the circulatory system of the hagfish, the physiology of the Chinook salmon, and the influence of inorganic salts on the cardiac tissues. He was editor of Kirke's Handbook of Physiology (eighth edition, 1914) and is author of Experimental Pharmacology (1905; third edition, 1909) and Textbook of Pharmacology (1914).