Joseph S. Murtaugh Papers 1946-1970
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Murtaugh, Joseph S.
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Joseph Stuart Murtaugh (1912-1973) was born in Weston, Massachusetts and graduated from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. A statistician, Murtaugh joined the Army Surgeon General's office during World War II. After the war he worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration before becoming assistant executive director of the Public Health Service's Bureau of Medical Services. In 1956 he joined NIH as a member of the Director's staff, a position he held unti...
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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Brief biographies of selected NIH Directors: Rolla E. Dyer directed the National Institutes of Health from 1942 to 1950. Specializing in infectious diseases, Dyer joined the Public Health Service in 1916. As NIH Director he was instrumental in the establishment of the Clinical Center, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the National Institute of Mental Health. An international authority on nutrition and dietary deficiency disease, William H. Sebrell began...
United States. Public Health Service
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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...
