Title:

Directors and commissioners of the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army

Date:

[12-13 May 1942]

Description:

Disease control was a major concern during World War II, and Sawyer, as Director of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division, was one of many public health experts recruited to help with assessment and planning.. Front row, left to right: Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, O.H. Perry Pepper, Andrew J. Warren, Earnest W. Goodpasture, Francis G. Blake, Oswald T. Avery, Kenneth M. Maxcy, Alphonse R. Dochez, and Lt. Col. Stanhope Bayne-Jones.. Back row, left to right: John R. Paul, Perrin H. Long, Colin M. MacLeod, Thomas Francis, Jr., Wilbur A. Sawyer, Joseph Stokes, Oswald H. Robertson, M H. Dawson.

Location:

Box: 4. Folder: 7

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Public Health and Military Hygiene

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBCK

NLM ID:

101584931X29

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X29

Story Section:

DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944