John Holmes Dingle

John Holmes Dingle (born November 24, 1908 in Cooperstown (North Dakota) , † September 15, 1973 ) was an American doctor ( bacteriology , immunology ) and professor at Case Western Reserve University .

Dingle was the son of a Methodist clergyman and grew up under limited financial circumstances. After his father's death, he and his family moved to Seattle . He studied pharmacology at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1930 (summa cum laude) and a master's degree in 1931 and medicine at Johns Hopkins University with a doctorate in immunology in 1933. He had to finance his studies himself (a scholarship was through the depression become worthless). His first positions were as a bacteriologist at the Maryland Department of Health Laboratory and with a pharmaceutical company (Upjohn). From 1935 he was able to continue his medical studies at Harvard University with a scholarship and graduated magna cum laude (MD) in 1939 . Hans Zinsser was one of his professors there . He then was a year house officer at Boston Children's Hospital, then was a Frances Weld Peabody Fellow at Boston City Hospital (Thorndike Memorial Laboratory) and from 1941 instructor in the department of bacteriology and immunology at Harvard. During World War II he served in the Army Medical Corps and was a member of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, for which he headed a commission on respiratory diseases at Fort Bragg (director 1942-1955). He was on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board until 1967 and its president from 1955 to 1957. He was a professor at Caser Western Reserve University, where he was director of the preventive medicine department from 1949 to 1969. He resigned after being diagnosed with an insidious disease that confined him to a wheelchair. But he remained Elizabeth Severance Prentiss Professor of Preventive Medicine until his death after a heart attack.

He dealt with the epidemiology and causes of acute respiratory diseases (such as pneumonia and colds).

In 1959 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award . In 1968 he received the Bristol Award . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and, since 1965, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 1957/58 he was president of the American Association of Immunologists . From 1954 to 1959 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Immunology .

He received the Legion of Merit, the James D. Bruce Memorial Award in 1960 and the Outstanding Civilian Service Award of the US Army in 1967 and the Certificate of Appreciation in 1973.

He had been married to Doris Brown since 1946 and had a son and a daughter.

literature

• William S. Jordan: John Holmes Dingle 1908-1973, Biographical Memoirs National Academy, 1992, pdf

Web links

• Obituary in the New York Times, September 17, 1973
• Biography with the American Association of Immunologists
• Biographical data