Dr Gilbert N. Ling

Born in Nanking China, Gilbert Ling received his Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of Chicago in 1948. He first taught at the Medical School at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD., and then became a researcher at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of Illinois Medical School. While doing research in Baltimore, Dr. Ling concluded that the traditional theory of the living cell could be in serious trouble. He offered a new hypothesis, and laid the groundwork for this theory while in Chicago before returning east to Philadelphia. Here in 1962, he published his book "A Physical Theory of the Living Cell: the Association-Induction Hypothesis".