Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Events. Images, 1964-1966.

Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981

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George Washington Corner worked as a medical historian in addition to anatomist and endocrinologist. From the guide to the Great Leaders in American Medicine; Dr. George Washington Corner, 1974., 1974, (American Philosophical Society) George Washington Corner was an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the description of Papers, 1903-1982. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440080 From the description of G...

White, Paul Dudley, 1886-1973

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White (1886-1973) (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, 1940-1950, and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., 1911-1950. One of the early specialists in cardiology, White introduced the first electrocardiograph to Boston in 1914, and was one of the three physicians after whom the W.P.W. Syndrome was named. White's book Heart Disease (1931) established his reputation as a leading cardiologist. From the description ...

Richardson, George S.

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George S. Richardson was a physician in Roswell, New Mexico in the second half of the twentieth century. A staunch conservative and anti-communist, he had a keen interest in politics and international affairs. From the description of George S. Richardson papers, 1957-1987. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 62207198 ...

Ebert, Robert H.

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Ebert (Chicago, M.D. 1942) taught medicine at Western Reserve University and was director of Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland from 1956 to 1964. In 1964 he was appointed Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Ebert served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard from 1965 until July of 1977. His research is in the field of respiratory inflammation and infection. From the...

Villee, Claude Alvin, 1917-....

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Claude Alvin Villee, Jr., 1917-2003, BS, 1937, Franklin and Marshall College; PhD, 1941, University of California, was Andelot Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School, where he helped establish the Laboratory of Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology. Villee's research focused on hormone action and reproductive biology; he also taught biochemistry, human reproductive physiology, and biology to first year students. From the description of Papers, 1950s-1980s. ...

Swank, Raynard Coe, 1912-

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Gellis, Sydney S.

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Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wallace), 1913-

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Bryant served as librarian and director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Douglas Wallace Bryant, 1935-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973321 ...

Stuart, Harold C. (Harold Coe), 1891-

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Stuart (Columbia, M.D. 1918) taught pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, 1921- ; was also physician and chief of the Child Health Division at Children's Medical Center from 1946 to 1953; and a physician and consulting physician until his retirement in 1958. In addition he established the first Department of Maternal and Child Health in any school of public health. Stuart was noted for his 27-year study of the growth and development of 134 children from the fetal period to their 18th year. ...

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-

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MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitizer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard. From the guide to the Plays, 1957-1968., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor of Rhetoric...

Temkin, Owsei, 1902-2002

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Taube, Mortimer, 1910-1965

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Brooks, John R., 1919 or 1920-2001

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Vallee, Bert L.

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Kazanjian, Varaztad Hovhannes

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Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian (1879-1974) was an internationally known pioneer in plastic surgery, specializing in the treatment of numerous congenital and acquired facial deformities. His innovative surgical procedures were recorded in more than one hundred and fifty journal articles. With John Marquis Converse, he authored the classic plastic surgery textbook, The Surgical Treatment of Facial Injuries . Dr. Kazanjian came to the United States in 1895 from Turkish Armeni...

Burwell, C. Sidney (Charles Sidney), 1893-

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Burwell (Harvard, M.D., 1919) physiologist in cardiovascular diseases and teacher, was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1949. From the description of Papers of Charles Sidney Burwell, 1926-1965 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427973 Charles Sidney Burwell (1893-1967), M.D.,1919, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University (1928-1935), Dean of the Harvard Medical School (1935-1949), Rese...

Pusey, Nathan M. (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001

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Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) was the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. He was also president of Lawrence College (1944-1953), president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1971-1975), and president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (1978-1983). Pusey's tenure as president was defined by new building construction, greater fundraising, and struggles with student protestors. From the description of Papers of Nathan Marsh Pusey, 1...

Snyder, John Crayton, 1910-

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Cummings, Martin Marc, 1920-2011

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Graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1944 and was the director of the National Library of Medicine from 1964 to 1984. From the description of Oral history interview with Martin Marc Cummings, 2005. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 166230630 ...

Pope, Alfred, 1915-....

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Gordon Hall of Medicine (Boston, Mass.)

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Berry, George Packer

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Berry (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1925) was a bacteriologist whose research interests are in the fields of immunology and virology. As dean of the Harvard Medical School (1949-1965), professor of bacteriology at Harvard, and past president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), he has done much to shape the quality of medical education. He also unified the Harvard Medical School and its private teaching hospitals into one corporate organization, the Harvard Medical Center, and served a...

Rutstein, David D. (David Davis), 1909-

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Shaw, James H. (James Headon), 1918-

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Colby, Charles Clifton.

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Krayer, Otto, 1899-1982

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Otto Krayer (1899-1982), M.D., 1926, University of Freiburg, Germany, was a pharmacologist, professor, and researcher. Krayer was an international leader in the field of pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, for twenty-eight years. In 1933, Krayer refused an appointment to an academic chair at the University of Dusseldorf after the removal of the Jewish incumbent by Nazi government officials in Germany. For this, Kr...

Bloomquist, Harold

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Stevenson, Lloyd. G.

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Greep, Roy Orval, 1905-

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Dammin, Gustave J. (Gustave John), 1911-

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Gustave John Dammin, 1911-1991, BA, 1930, MD, 1934, Cornell University, Elise T. Friedman Professor of Pathology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School and former pathologist-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1952 to 1974, was part of the Harvard Medical School-Peter Bent Brigham Hospital team that performed the world's first successful kidney transplant in 1954. In the 1970s, Dammin's research focused on human babesiosis and Lyme disease, and he participated in the identification, ...

Fletcher, Norman

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Holt, Anna C.

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Yakovlev, Paul Ivan, 1894-1983

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Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894-1983) was a neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Clinical Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School. Yakovlev also served as curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at HMS. Yakovlev's neurological research provided the basis for stereotaxic brain operations. From the description of Papers, 1927-1971. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231042300 ...

Aesculapian Club.

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Esterquest, Ralph Theodore.

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Sprague, Howard Burnham, 1895-1970.

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Sprague (Harvard, M.D. 1922) was a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and taught clinical medicine at the Harvard Medical School from 1927. He served as president of the American, New England, and Massachusetts Heart Associations, treasurer of the International Cardiology Foundation, and as president of the Boston Medical Library. His scientific papers include clinical reports of cardiac disorders in children and in adults; some also discuss dietary and emotional factors and the prob...

Richards, Dickinson W.

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Physician; interviewee b.1895, d.1973. From the description of Reminiscences of Dickinson W. Richards : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619661 ...

Boston Medical Library

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The Boston Medical Library is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1877 to establish and maintain a Library of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, and to promote and advance medical science and education. In 1960, the Boston Medical Library and the Harvard Medical School Library entered into an agreement to combine their collections and administration in one location, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. From the description of Special events videotapes, 2000-2006. (Harvar...

Mayer, Jean, 1920-

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Mayer (1920- ) (Yale, Ph.D. 1948) taught nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1950 to 1976, when he became president of Tufts University. He chaired the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health and served as consultant on nutrition to various countries. He has lectured extensively and written articles and books. His research has dealt primarily with the brain mechanism regulating hunger and food intake and with experimental and clinical obesity. Fro...

Fleming, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul), 1907-

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Menzel, Herbert, 1921-1987

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Fainsod, Merle, 1907-1972. | How Russia is ruled. Chinese

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Formerly Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard University, Professor Fainsod was the author of "Government and the American economy", "How Russia is ruled", "International socialism and the world war" and other works. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1944-1959. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225769354 Fainsod taught government at Harvard and was Director of the Harvard University Library. ...

Levine, Samuel A. (Samuel Albert), 1891-1966

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Levine (Harvard, M.D. 1914) taught medicine at Harvard Medical School, 1923- , and was on the staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1914- . A chair of medicine was endowed in his honor in 1954. Levine was a noted heart specialist, and was one of the first to diagnose and describe coronary thrombosis. He also studied pernicious anemia. From the description of Slide and tape recording on life of Samuel A. Levine, 1978. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281428169 ...

Stubbins, Hugh, 1912-

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Friend, Dale Gilbert.

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Means, James Howard, 1885-1967

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Means (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard from 1932 to 1951, acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1946, and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1924 to 1951. He established the first thyroid clinic in Boston in 1920 and introduced the use of radioactive iodine as a valuable diagnostic aid in the treatment of thyroid disorders in 1941. Means resigned from the American Medical Association in 1951 because he felt its attitude ...