David Talmage
{{Short description|American immunologist (1919–2014)}}
David Wilson Talmage (September 15, 1919 – March 6, 2014) was an American immunologist.{{cite web|title=U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&db=USpublicrecords2&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=2&msT=1&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&gss=ms_r_db&gsfn=David+&gsfn_x=1&gsln=Talmage&gsln_x=1&msbdy=1919&msbdy_x=1&msbdm_x=1&msbdd_x=1&uidh=924&msbdd=15&msbdm=9|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=21 August 2013}} He made significant contributions to the clonal selection theory.{{cite web|url=http://www.uchsc.edu/immuno/history.html |title=History of the Integrated Department of Immunology |publisher=University of Colorado Health Sciences Center |accessdate=2009-09-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527112928/http://www.uchsc.edu/immuno/history.html |archivedate=2010-05-27 }}
Career
Talmage was born to American Presbyterian missionaries in Japanese-controlled Korea. He was educated by home school and mission school until attending a boarding school in Pyongyang for secondary education.{{cite journal|title=David W. Talmage, M.D. (AAI '54) 1919–2014|journal=Journal of Immunology|date=September 1, 2014|volume=193|issue=5 |doi=10.4049/jimmunol.1490030|url=http://www.jimmunol.org/content/193/5/2037.full|pages=2037–2038|pmid=25128545|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}} Talmage received his BS from Davidson College in 1941 and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1944. From 1952 to 1959 he was associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. From 1959 he was professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, professor of microbiology from 1960 to 1986, and distinguished professor starting in 1986. Between 1973 and 1983 he served as director of Webb-Waring Lung Institute and as associate dean of research from 1983 to 1986.{{cite journal|last=Talmage |first=David |title=The Webb-Waring Lung Institute – Plans for the future |journal=Rocky Mountain Medical Journal |year=1979 |volume=77 |issue=3 |page=126 |pmid=462075 |url=http://tobaccodocuments.org/nysa_ti_s3/TI09320718.html?pattern=Talmage&ocr_position=&rotation=0&zoom=750&start_page=1&end_page=2 |accessdate=22 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615161410/http://tobaccodocuments.org/nysa_ti_s3/TI09320718.html?pattern=Talmage&ocr_position=&rotation=0&zoom=750&start_page=1&end_page=2 |archivedate=15 June 2011 }} He won the inaugural American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.{{cite web | title=Past Recipients | website=The American Association of Immunologists | url=https://www.aai.org/Awards/Career-Awards/AAI-Lifetime-Achievement-Award/Past-Recipients.aspx | access-date=19 September 2018}}
Talmage's protégé Andor Szentivanyi discovered The Beta Adrenergic Theory of Asthma.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r-gLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6826,3804724&dq=david-talmage|title=Refugee Doctors Build Relationships|date=30 July 1984|publisher=The Evening Independent|accessdate=2009-09-22}}
He died at the age of 94 on March 6, 2014.{{cite web|title=David Wilson Talmage, MD|url=http://www.monarchsociety.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2447742&fh_id=14405|publisher=Monarch society|accessdate=2 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071711/http://www.monarchsociety.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2447742&fh_id=14405|archivedate=7 April 2014}}
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- {{cite journal|last1=Cruse|first1=J. M.|last2=Lewis|first2=R. E.|title=David W. Talmage and the advent of the cell selection theory of antibody synthesis.|journal=Journal of Immunology|date=August 1, 1994|volume=153|issue=3|pages=919–29|doi=10.4049/jimmunol.153.3.919 |pmid=8027564 |s2cid=32756505 |url=http://www.jimmunol.org/content/153/3/919.full.pdf}}
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Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:American immunologists
Category:Davidson College alumni
Category:Washington University School of Medicine alumni
Category:University of Chicago faculty
Category:University of Colorado Denver faculty
Category:American expatriates in Korea
Category:Members of the National Academy of Medicine
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