Prof.Dr. Anton Frens 1964 - 1975
Prof. Brouwer was succeeded by Dr. Anton M. Frens who was appointed in 1964 as professor in Animal Physiology, including Metabolism of Humans and Animals.
This appointment title reflected the increasing importance for research and teaching of human physiology, but it was also meant to exclude this topic from the field of Animal Nutrition. Dr. Frens was a trained animal physician. Under his supervision, in the early 1970s, a building adjacent to the Physiology laboratory was constructed for working with radioisotopes. Prof Frens formally retired in 1975.
Translation and excerpt:
Active exploration in the internal outside world of ruminants
Farewell address held on January 8, 1975 by Prof.Dr. A.M. Frens
Professor of Animal Physiology at Wageningen University
'Just as the interior of the earth is separated from the outside world better known to us by an earth's crust, the interior of the mammalian organism is isolated from the outside world by a special tissue layer, the main task of which is to protect the actual organism against external influences and thereby enabling the organism to maintain its own identity unchanged among a multitude of disintegrating factors.'