Shapiro, S. R. (Solomon R.), 1911-

Victor Robinson (1886-1947), medical professor.

Victor Robinson was born in Ukraine in 1886 to a Russian physician. He attended New York University and then the New York College of Pharmacy. He also studied law at Columbia University. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1917 from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (which would later become Loyola University). He would write many works on the history of medicine and would teach the history of medicine at Temple University. He also founded Medical Life, a journal of the history of medicine, and helped start the History of Science Society in 1924.

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