Henshaw, Paul S. (Paul Stewart), 1902-

Research biologist.

Paul Stewart Henshaw was born August 23, 1902, in Salt Fork, Oklahoma. He took his A.B. at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas; his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 and 1930, respectively. Following this he became a research biologist at the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City. In 1938 Henshaw became a Research Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, and advanced to the post of Senior Radiobiologist in 1940. He was a research biologist at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago for the Manhattan Project in 1944, and after one year moved to the Clinton Laboratory of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as a research biologist. He was co-leader of the Atomic Energy Commission in Japan from 1946 to 1947, at which time he also terminated his association with the Manhattan Project. From 1947 to 1949 Henshaw served as chief of the fundamental research branch of the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers in Toyko for the rehabilitation of Japanese science. Until 1952 he was assistant chief of the Division of International Health, a branch of the U.S. Health Service. In the years 1952-54 he was Director of Research for the Planned Parenthood Federation, Inc., and then became Executive Director of the National Committee on Maternal Health in New York, a position which he held until 1955. From 1956 to 1963 Henshaw served as biophysicist for the Atomic Energy Commission.