Thomas N. Bonner
{{Short description|American academic (1923–2003)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Thomas N. Bonner
| image =
| order =
| title = 12th President of the University of New Hampshire
| term_start = 1971
| term_end = 1974
| predecessor = John W. McConnell
| successor = Eugene S. Mills
| order2 =
| title2 = 15th President of Union College
| term_start2 = 1974
| term_end2 = 1978
| predecessor2 = Harold Clark Martin
| successor2 = John Selwyn Morris
| order3 =
| title3 = 7th President of Wayne State University
| term_start3 = 1978
| term_end3 = 1982
| predecessor3 = George E. Gullen Jr.
| successor3 = David Adamany
| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|5|28}}
| birth_place = Rochester, New York, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|9|2|1923|5|28}}
| death_place = Scottsdale, Arizona, US
| alma_mater = University of Rochester
}}
Thomas Neville Bonner (28 May 1923 – 2 September 2003) was professor emeritus at Wayne State University and a leading historian of medicine.{{cite journal |last1=Lurie |first1=E. |title=In Memoriam: Thomas Neville Bonner, 1923–2003 |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |date=1 April 2004 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=290–292 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/jrh070 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/59/2/290/749867 |accessdate=28 October 2020|url-access=subscription }} Bonner was the twelfth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1971 to 1974. After 3 years at UNH he became the fifteenth president of Union College from 1974 to 1978. He then became the seventh president of Wayne State University from 1978 to 1982. Bonner was a U.S. Army World War II veteran as part of the Army Signal Intelligence Unit in Europe.{{cite web |title=Former Wayne State President Thomas N. Bonner dies at 80 |url=https://today.wayne.edu/news/2003/09/12/former-wayne-state-president-thomas-n-bonner-dies-at-80-170.}} He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona.
Selected publications
- Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
- To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine
- Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945
- Medicine in Chicago, 1850–1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City
- American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in Intellectual Relations, 1870–1914
- The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering
- Our Recent Past
- The contemporary world: The social sciences in historical perspective
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20070613002001/http://www.unh.edu/president/unhpresidentsbios.htm University of New Hampshire: Office of the President]
- [https://library.unh.edu/find/archives/university-presidents Full list of University Presidents (including interim Presidents) ], University of New Hampshire Library
- {{Find a Grave|8310436|Dr Thomas Neville Bonner}}
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Category:Wayne State University faculty
Category:Northwestern University alumni
Category:American medical historians
Category:Presidents of Union College (New York)
Category:Presidents of the University of New Hampshire
Category:Presidents of Wayne State University