Frederic Schiller Lee (1859-1939) was an American physiologist who spent most of his research career at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The elder Lee served as the first president of St. Lawrence University, from which Frederic received his bachelor's degree in 1878.
[4] He then returned to the United States, spent a year as an instructor of biology at St. Lawrence, and then moved to an instructorship in histology and physiology at Bryn Mawr College.
[1] Lee began his career at Columbia in 1891 as a demonstrator for John Green Curtis, tasked with developing a new, practical laboratory course in physiology.
During the war, he oversaw studies of the physiology of worker fatigue (which led to recruiting a young Albert Baird Hastings to Columbia),[5] and published this work in the book The Human Machine and Industrial Efficiency in 1919.