Max Kleiber

Max Kleiber (4 January 1893–5 January 1976) was a Swiss agricultural biologist, born and educated in Zürich, Switzerland. Kleiber graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as an Agricultural Chemist in 1920, earned the ScD degree in 1924, and became a Privatdozent after publishing his thesis, The Energy Concept in the Science of Nutrition. Kleiber joined the Animal Husbandry Department of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 1929 to construct respiration chambers and conduct research on energy metabolism in animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Kleiber

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