Philip B. Hawk

Philip Bovier Hawk (July 18, 1874 - September 13, 1966) was an American biochemist, nutritionist, and amateur tennis player.

Biography

Hawk was born in East Branch, New York. He studied at Wesleyan University, where he obtained his B.S. degree in 1898. He worked as an assistant to Wilbur Olin Atwater in nutrition research at Wesleyan University (1898–1900). He taught at physiological chemistry the University of Illinois and toxicology at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. Hawk was assistant professor of physiological chemistry at University of Pennsylvania (1903-1907). It contained biochemical methods and preparations that were used as laboratory exercises by medical students for more than half a century.

An expert in nutrition, he founded the Food and Drug Research Laboratories in 1922. and the American Physiological Society.

Tennis Hawk was an experienced tennis player. He was a singles semifinalist at the Cincinnati Open in 1908 and won singles titles at the state championships of Delaware (1905), and Connecticut (1907, 1908 and 1909). He was the National Veterans' champion from 1921 to 1923. He was president of the West Side Tennis Club. Hawk married his second wife Gladys Taylor Lynch in 1923.

Selected publications

Practical Physiological Chemistry (1907) The Activity of the Pancreatic Function Under the Influence of Copious and Moderate Water-Drinking with Meals (1911) What We Eat and What Happens to It (1919) The Lottery of Love (1925) Streamline for Health (1935) Off the Racket: Tennis Highlights and Lowdowns (1937, with an introduction by Stephen Wallis Merrihew)