Minnesota Poliomyelitis Research Committee papers circa 1940s-1970s

Bosma, James F.

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Visscher, Maurice B., 1901-1983

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Maurice B. Visscher, B.S. (1922) Hope College (Holland, MI), Ph.D. (1925), M.D. (1931) University of Minnesota. Appointed as professor and head of the department of physiology at the University of Minnesota in 1936. Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, president of the American Physiological Society, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, the International Organization of Medical S...

Keys, Ancel, 1904-2004

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Ancel Keys, B.A. (1925), M.A. (1928), Ph.D. (1930) University of California. Professor of physiology and founder of the Division of Epidemiology in School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Developed the K-ration for the War Department during World War II; research on human starvation guided relief workers in post-war Europe; conducted research in the areas of cholesterol and heart disease, leading to the conclusion that higher fat diets led to increased cholesterol le...

Bieter, Raymond Nicholas, 1900-1990.

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Raymond Nicholas Bieter was born in Heron Lake, Minnesota on October 9, 1900. He attended the College of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota, and studied at Johns Hopkins before returning to teach pharmacology at the University of Minnesota in 1931. Bieter became Head of the Pharmacology Dept. in 1942, and Asst. Dean of the Medical School and Director of Educational Services in 1962. In addition, Bieter worked as a consultant to 3M Company and to Sterling-Winthrop Drug Company, and served...

Minnesota Poliomyelitis Research Committee

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In the 1940's, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), also known as the March of Dimes and founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, awarded funds to the University of Minnesota for polio research. Because of the polio epidemic sweeping the nation, and especially Minnesota, the NFIP, which usually worked with local chapters, made available special funds to be administered by a coordinating service committee to combat the emergency in the affected area. The Minnesota Poliomy...

Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952

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Elizabeth Kenny, the daughter of Michael and Mary Kenny, was born September 20, 1886 in New South Wales, Australia. At 16 she graduated from St. Ursula's College, Queensland, Australia. She received her nursing training at a private hospital and served as a nurse in the Australian bush country from 1911 to 1914. It was during this period that she encountered her first case of infantile paralysis (1909) and developed her treatment for the disease. During World War I Kenny served as a...

Bell, E. T. (Elexious Thompson), 1880-1963

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Watson, Cecil James 1901-1983

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Gellhorn, Ernst, 1893-1973

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Baker, A. B. (Abe Bert), 1908-

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Anderson, Gaylord West, 1901-1979

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Gaylord West Anderson, B.A. (1922) Dartmouth College, M.D. (1928) and Ph.D. (1942) Harvard University. Founder and director of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and internationally recognized public health authority. Gaylord Anderson was born on 31 December 1901 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Frank Maloy Anderson, was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota from 1894-1914. He earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1922, his M.D. in 1928 and his P...

McQuarrie, Irvine, 1892-

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