Cecil Kent Drinker
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Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 19, 1956) was an American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of radium on the women painting luminous dials.
Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., industrial hygienist Philip Drinker and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen. Cecilia Beaux, the artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was his aunt.
Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker, a fellow physician.
References
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- {{cite journal|pmid=13380935|year=1956|author1=Means J. H.|title=Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956|journal=Transactions of the Association of American Physicians|volume=69|pages=11–3}}
- {{cite journal|pmid=13393814|year=1957|title=Katherine Rotan Drinker, 1889-1956 and Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956|journal=A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health|volume=15|issue=1|pages=74–5}}
- {{cite journal|doi =10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300439|year =2000|last1 =Rozwadowski|first1 =Helen M.| title =Drinker, Cecil Kent| journal = American National Biography }}
- {{cite web | title = The Founders & Deans of HSPH| date= 29 October 2013| url= https://issuu.com/harvardpublichealth/docs/hphfall2013web/9}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/ | title=Deadly occupation, forged report| date=24 October 2013}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/centennial-lab-partners-life-partners/ | title= Lab partners, life partners| date= 13 March 2013}}
External links
- [https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/med00025/catalog Cecil Kent Drinker papers, 1898-1958. H MS c165. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.]
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Category:Lehigh University alumni
Category:Harvard Medical School faculty
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