Subject: Yale University School of Medicine        United States Public Health Service        University of Western Ontario        American Society of Human Genetics        University of Oslo        Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases of New York City        University of Paris

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1937     C. 1937

Topic: Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5337]

Summary: In this photograph, titled "Most Famous Cancer Researchers in the World," are shown (left to right):

• geneticist Clarence Cook Little (1888-1971);
• physiologist Edgar Allen (1892-1943);
• biologist Howard Bancroft Andervont (1898-1981);
• geneticist Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893-1962);
• physician Leiv Kreyberg (b. 1896);
• biophysicist Gioacchino Failla (1891-1961); and
• radiation oncologist Henri Coutard (1876-1950).

At the time the photograph was taken, Little headed the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Allen was professor of anatomy at Yale University Medical School; and Andervont was with the U.S. Public Health Service. Macklin was then associate professor of histology and Embryology at University of Western Ontario, and later served as president of the American Society of Human Genetics. Kreyberg taught at the University of Oslo; Failla was then working at the Cancer Memorial Hospital of New York City; and Coutard was chief of the department of x-ray therapy for cancer at the Radium Institute, University of Paris

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archivess

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Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives