Charles-Edward Amory Winslow

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (born February 4, 1877 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 8, 1957 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American bacteriologist and public health expert .

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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was born on February 4, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was in 1908 Bachelor and 1910 Master of Science . During his studies he worked as a bacteriologist at MIT , where he met Anne Fuller Rogers, whom he married in 1907. Between 1908 and 1910 he researched bacteria in wastewater and then moved to the City College of New York to teach there. From 1910 to 1922 he was the curator of public health at the American Museum of Natural History . He became President of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in 1926 and an advisor to the World Health Organization in the 1950s .

When the Society of American Bacteriologists was founded in 1899 , Winslow became the youngest member of the organization. In 1915 he founded the Yale Department of Public Health at Yale Medical School at Yale University . Here he was a professor until 1945.

Winslow was the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology and held that position from 1916 to 1944. From 1944 to 1954 he was editor of the Journal of Public Health .

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow died on January 8, 1957 in New Haven (Connecticut) after a long illness. He has been the namesake for Winslow Rock in Antarctica since 1960 .

Works

Winslow wrote over 600 articles and several books on bacteriology, public health, and other subjects. His most important works include:

• The Evolution and Significance of the Modern Public Health Campaign (1923)
• The Conquest of Epidemic Disease (1943)
• The History of American Epidemiology (1952)

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literature

• Ira V. Hiscock: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow: February 4, 1877-January 8, 1957 . In: Journal of Bacteriology . tape 73 , no. 3 , 1957, pp. 295-296 ( pdf ).
• Haven Emerson, Reginald M. Atwater, M. Allan Pond, Robert S. Breed, A. Helen Martikainen, George Rosen, Philp S. Platt, Hugh R. Leavell, Franz Goldmann, William B. Terhune, Elizabeth Gordon Fox, Leonard Greenburg , Harry E. Jordan, Ira V. Hiscock, Frank G. Boudreau: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow: February 4, 1877-January 8, 1957 . In: American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health . tape 47 , no. 2 , 1957, p. 151-167 , PMC 1551151 (free full text).

Web links

• John M. Last: Winslow, Charles-Edward Amory. In: Encyclopedia of Public Health. Retrieved February 23, 2010 .