Smithburn, Kenneth C., 1904-1973.

Research scientist Kenneth C. Smithburn (1904-73) received the B.S. (1926) and M.D. (1928) degrees from Indiana University. From 1930 to 1938, he served on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York (later known as The Rockefeller University). In 1939, he joined the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, becoming Director in 1946. From 1953 to 1959, he ran a research center in Johannesburg, South Africa on Arthropod-borne viruses, jointly sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, the South African Institute for Medical Research, and the Poliomyelitis Research Foundation. Smithburn retired in 1959 and died in 1973.