Paul Franklin Clark

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Paul Franklin Clark also in the spelling variant Paul F. Clark (born May 9, 1882 in Portland , Maine , † August 23, 1983 in Livermore , California ) was an American bacteriologist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Originally from Portland , Maine, Paul Franklin Clark, son of Jotham Franklin Clark (1844-1884) and his second wife Martha Ella born Dresser (1848-1926), turned to studying biology after attending public schools in his hometown at Brown University to, there he acquired in 1904 the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Ph.) , in the following year those of a Master of Arts , in 1909 received his doctorate he became Ph. D. additional courses completed Paul Franklin Clark in 1913 and in 1914 at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , and in 1923 at the Pasteur Institute in Brussels in Belgium and at the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology at the University of Cambridge in England .

Paul Franklin Clark, a member of the Congregational Church , married Alice Edith née Schiedt (1881–1980) on September 28, 1911. This marriage came from the children Eunice Waters Clark (1912-2002), Edith McDonnell Clark (1912-1914), Rebecca Frances Clark (1915-1998) and Arnold Franklin Clark (1916-). Paul Franklin Clark died in August 1983 at the old age of 101 in the Hacienda Care Center in Livermore, California. His ashes were interred in Pine Hill Cemetery in Wells, Maine.

Professional background

Paul Franklin Clark received his first position as an Assistant in Biology and Bacteriology at Brown University in 1904, and from 1905 to 1907 he held the post of Assistant Bacteriologist on the State Board of Health in Providence , Rhode Island . In 1909 he moved to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City as a Fellow , where he was subsequently appointed Assistant and finally Associate . In 1914 Paul Franklin Clark followed a call from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to an Associate Professorship of Bacteriology , in 1918 he was promoted to full professor , in 1952 he was retired . In addition, Clark served at the end of World War I as a consulting bacteriologist at the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army .

Paul Franklin Clark, one of the leading bacteriologists in the USA of his time, was a member of the Society of American Bacteriologists, of which he was President in 1938, of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, the American Society for Experimental Pathology, and the American Association of Immunologists , the Alpha Tau Omega, the Sigma Xi , the Phi Beta Pi and the UW-Madison University Club.

Publications

  • with Simon Flexner , Francis Richard Fraser: Epidemic Poliomyelitis: Fourteenth Note: Passive Human Carriage of the Virus of Poliomyelities , United States, 1913
  • Intraspinous infection in experimental poliomyelitis , Lancaster, Pa., 1914
  • together with Jean Epstein : Pasteur  : le film du centenaire, 1822-1895 , L'édition francaise cinématographique, Paris, 1923
  • Alice in Virusland , Society of American bacteriologists, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1938
  • together with Alice Edith Clark (Schiedt): Memorable days in medicine, a calendar of biology and medicine , The University of Wisconsin press, Madison, 1942
  • Pioneer microbiologists of America , University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1961
  • The University of Wisconsin Medical School: a chronicle, 1848-1948 , Published for the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association by Wisconsin UP, 1967

literature

  • Robert Cecil Cook (Ed.): Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States, volume III , Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1934, p. 154.
  • Library of Congress, American Library Association. Resources and Technical Services Division: National Union Catalog: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries, volume XIX , Library of Congress, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1968, p. 162.
  • Who was who in America. : volume VII, 1977-1981 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 111.
  • American Society for Microbiology : ASM news, volume 50 , American Society for Microbiology, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1984, p. 104.

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personal data
SURNAME Clark, Paul Franklin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Paul F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland (Maine)
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1983
Place of death Livermore (California)