Among other contributions, Klopfer's research helped to establish the link between oxytocin and maternal attachment behavior[6] and to initiate study of neural processes involved in hibernation among primates[7] As a civil rights advocate Klopfer was jailed in 1964 for protesting segregated restaurant facilities in Orange County, North Carolina, including Watts Restaurant and Grill.
[17] Through volunteering at an American Friends Service Committee weekend work camp in Claremont, California, Peter Klopfer became acquainted with Martha Smith.
Peter Klopfer did his Ph.D. work at the Osborn Memorial Labs of Yale University, drawn there by the recommendation of George Bartholomew and the charisma of G. Evelyn Hutchinson and Frank A.
[20] Here Klopfer came to know a variety of faculty members and guest lecturers, including J.P. Trinkaus, Dillon Ripley, Don Griffin, José Delgado, Konrad Lorenz and Margaret Mead.
His cohort of graduate students at Yale included Malcolm S. Gordon, Alan J. Kohn, Daniel A. Livingstone, Robert H. MacArthur, and Jane Van Zandt Brower.
[21] After a brief stint as head of the science department at Windsor Mountain School (1956), Klopfer's next stop in his formation as a scientist was a year (1957–58) as a postdoctoral fellow at W.H.
[22] Peter Klopfer's career in higher education began in 1958, when he accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Duke University's Department of Zoology.
An additional arena of Klopfer's service to Duke University was as its women's track coach, before Title IX (1972), when the team was a club (but did compete in ACC cross country meets).
The couple were not only founding and sustaining board members of CFS; they taught at it, raised funds for it, donated the land for it, sent their three daughters to it, and have provided continuous servant leadership to it for six decades.
[30] While a young professor at Duke, Klopfer chose to take an active role in the civil rights movement that swept across the American South from 1954–1968.
Indeed, just days after arriving in Durham, North Carolina (from Cambridge, England, in 1958), Peter and Martha Klopfer behaved, at a segregated laundromat, in a manner that confounded both its black and its white patrons.
"[31] As an extension of his Quaker pacifism Klopfer, when a young adult, had joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
As documented in detail by Daniel H. Pollitt in a 1965 article published in the North Carolina Law Review 43 (689–767), the national profile of this movement for justice became especially pronounced in early 1964.
Before they could enter "Watts Grill," the would-be protestors were "jumped on in the parking lot and beaten"[33] Local police intervened in the bloodshed only after one of the UNC professors, Albert Halstead Amon, received serious head injuries.
[36] Ultimately, the U.S, Supreme Court voted by a margin of 6-3 to accept the case, which was argued on December 8, 1966, and decided unanimously in Klopfer's favor on March 13, 1967.
[38] Don Wells, Carolina Friends School principal at that time, asserted in sworn testimony that a "standardized equivalent measure" of student success, which Carolina Friends School employed, was the Quaker process of "consensus," which those in the judicial system should know well since it is what juries use "to decide, at times, matters of life and death."
"[40] (not including abstracts or book reviews) Of fruits and fats: white adipose tissue profiles in captive dwarf lemurs are affected by diet and temperature.