Darling, George B.

George Bapst Darling was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1905. After completing his undergraduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1927, Darling earned a Ph.D. in public health at the University of Michigan. He joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as associate executive director and served in successively more responsible positions until he was made president of the foundation in 1940. In 1943 he moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as executive secretary of the Committee on Military Medicine of the National Research Council. He became executive secretary of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council in 1945. From 1946 until 1953 Darling was head of the Division of Medicine at Yale University. He then taught in the Yale School of Public Health until he was named as the executive director of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima in 1957. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 1972. Darling died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1995.