Wyndham D. Miles
Wyndham Davies Miles (born November 21, 1916 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , † January 1, 2011 in Gaithersburg , Maryland ) was an American chemical and medical historian.
Life
Miles graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the Sciences with a bachelor's degree in 1942 and received his master's degree in organic chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1949 . 1944 to 1950 and 1952/53 he was a faculty member at Penn State University. In 1955 he received his doctorate from IB Cohen at Harvard University with a dissertation in the history of science (The development of chemical education in Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Pennsylvania). 1953 to 1960 he was a historian for the US Army Chemical Corps. In 1960/61 he was at the National Archives and in 1961/62 he was with the US Navy as a historian of the Polaris project. In 1962 he became the first historian to be hired by the National Institutes of Health . He conducted numerous oral history interviews for the NIH. From 1974 he was in the Department of Medical History of the National Library of Medicine.
In 1971 he received the Dexter Award . He was chairman of the American Chemical Society's History Division on several occasions. He was also one of the editors of ACS Centennial History (A Century of Chemistry, 1976).
One of his areas of research was the relationship between chemistry and the military, from the American Civil War to chemical warfare in the 20th century.
Fonts
- A History of the National Library of Medicine: The Nation's Treasury of Medical Knowledge, 1982
- with Leo B. Brophy, Rexmond C. Cochrane: The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field, 1959
- American Chemists and Chemical Engineers, 2 volumes, 1976, 1994
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| SURNAME | Miles, Wyndham D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miles, Wyndham Davies (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of chemistry and medicine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 2011 |
| Place of death | Gaithersburg , Maryland |