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- Title
Theobald Smith.
- Authors
Schultz, Myron
- Abstract
A biography of Theobald Smith, a pioneer epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist who made many contributions to medical science that were of far-reaching importance, is presented. Smith was born in 1859 and was the son of a German immigrant, who kept a small tailoring shop in Albany, New York. He earned a tuition-free scholarship at age 18 from Cornell University and graduated in 1881 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He established a department of bacteriology at Columbian University, where he taught from 1886 to 1895.
- Subjects
ALBANY (N.Y.); NEW York (State); SMITH, Theobald, 1859-1934; BACTERIOLOGISTS; MEDICAL sciences
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008, Vol 14, Issue 12, p1940
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Biography
- DOI
10.3201/eid1412.081188