ID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5337]
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1937
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5337
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.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5337
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5337]