George Gee Jackson

George Gee Jackson (born October 5, 1920 in Provo , Utah ) is an American medical doctor who deals with infectious diseases.

Jackson studied at Brigham Young University (Bachelor in 1943) and the University of Utah , where he made his MD in medicine in 1945. After training as an intern at Boston City Hospital , he was a Research Fellow and then an assistant at Harvard Medical School and Thorndike Memorial Hospital . From 1951 he was assistant professor and later professor at the University of Illinois Medical School , where he headed the department of infectious diseases from 1959. From 1979 until his retirement in 1987 he was Robert Wood Keeton Professor of Medicine . In 1968/69 he was a visiting scientist at the Tropical Institute in Hamburg, 1977/78 at the London Hospital Medical College and 1978/79 at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute of the University of Munich.

In 1984 he received the Ernst Jung Prize , in 1977 the Maxwell Finland Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America and in 1978 the Alexander von Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award . In 1974 he was President of the Infectious Disease Society of America. 1979 to 1984 he was editor of the Journal of Infectious Diseases .

He was married to Amy Cox Jackson from 1943 until her death in 2013 and has five children.

Fonts

• with Robert Lee Muldoon Viruses causing common respiratory infections in man , University of Chicago Press 1975
• Editor with H. Thomas: The Pathogenesis of bacterial infections , Springer Verlag 1985
• with HD Schlumberger, H.-J. Zeiler Perspectives in antiinfective therapy: Bayer centenary symposium, Washington DC 1988 , Springer Verlag 1989

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Amy Cox Jackson 1922-2013. In: legacy.com. Salt Lake Tribune , December 27, 2013, accessed October 5, 2019.