In memorium, Chester Monroe Edelmann, Jr., MD December 26, 1930–September 19, 2013

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Chester M. Edelmann, Jr., MD, Senior Associate Dean and Most Distinguished University Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, belonged to the best among us. Born in New York City in 1930, “Chet” went to Columbia College, then to Washington University in St. Louis, and then he returned to finish medical school at Cornell University and married his sweetheart Norma. He followed Henry Barnett, the first Chair of Pediatrics at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, the teaching hospital of the newly created Albert Einstein College of Medicine, became Chief Resident, and thereafter accepted a position in nephrology. In a landmark Journal of Clinical Investigation article, Chet and his colleagues demonstrated that a high protein intake led not only to an increase in urea and water excretion but also to an increase in concentration capacity that almost wiped out the difference previously noted between infants and children. …