James A. Shannon

{{Short description|Director of National Institutes of Health 1955–1968}}

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| name = James A. Shannon

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| order = 8th

| title = Director of the National Institutes of Health

| term_start = August 1, 1955

| term_end = August 31, 1968

| president = {{ublist|Dwight Eisenhower|John F. Kennedy|Lyndon Johnson}}

| predecessor = William H. Sebrell, Jr

| successor = Robert Q. Marston

| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|8|9}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|5|20|1904|8|9}}

| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland{{cite news |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |title=James A. Shannon, 89, Is Dead; Ex-Director of Health Institutes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/obituaries/james-a-shannon-89-is-dead-ex-director-of-health-institutes.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 September 2015|date=24 May 1994}}

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| spouse = Alice M. Waterhouse

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| children = 2

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| fields = Nephrology

| workplaces = National Institutes of Health

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| awards = Public Welfare Medal (1962)
President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (1966)
National Medal of Science{{cite web|title=National Medal of Science |url=http://www.rockefeller.edu/about/awards/nms/ |website=Rockefeller University |access-date=2 September 2015}} (1974)

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| education = College of the Holy Cross (BA)
{{nowrap|New York University (MD, PhD)}}

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James Augustine Shannon (August 9, 1904 – May 20, 1994) was an American nephrologist who served as director of National Institutes of Health (NIH) from August 1, 1955 to August 31, 1968. In 1962 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member.{{cite web |title=Public Welfare Award |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_pwm |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=17 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229180311/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_pwm |archive-date=29 December 2010 }}{{Cite web |title=James A. Shannon |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50587.html |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=www.nasonline.org}}

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and the American Philosophical Society in 1967.{{Cite web |title=James Augustine Shannon |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/james-augustine-shannon |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=James+A.+Shannon&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}} A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.