James Larimer

 

Dr. James Larimer – Professor Emeritus in the Section of Neurobiology – passed away last Tuesday, July 3. He was 75. Funeral and visitation services were held on July 7.

 

Larimer earned his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1959 under the mentorship of the late Dr. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. James followed his doctoral education with post-doctoral work at the University of Florida Medical School, Department of Pharmacology. While there, he worked with Dr. Thomas Maren on the secretion of salt in marine birds.

 

Larimer joined the faculty at the University of Texas later that year ('59) as Assistant Professor of Zoology. In 1964, James was promoted to Associate Professor of Zoology and did post-doctoral work as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow at Stanford University from 1967-68. He became a Full Professor at UT-Austin in 1968, where he remained until his retirement in 2005.

 

Publications by James Larimer: Google Scholar