Background
Moss, William Lorenzo was born on August 23, 1876 in Athens, Georgia, United States. Son of Rufus LaFayette and Elizabeth (Luckie) Moss.
Moss, William Lorenzo was born on August 23, 1876 in Athens, Georgia, United States. Son of Rufus LaFayette and Elizabeth (Luckie) Moss.
Bachelor of Science, University Georgia, 1901, Doctor of Science, 1928. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1905. Graduate student Berlin, 1907-1908.
Resident physician, 1910-1914. Assistant physician Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1906-1907, instructor medicine, 1908-1910, associate, 1910-1914. Internist State Institute Study Malignant Diseases, Buffalo, 1914-1915.
Assistant professor health department Yale, 1917.
Assistant professor, department preventive medicine and hygiene Harvard. 1919-1921, bacteriology and immunology, 1924-1929, acting dean, school public health, 1926.
Professor preventive medicine and dean U. Georgia School Medicine, 1931-1934. Expeditions: Tropical Medicine, Central America, 1914.
Harvard, Peru, 1916, Santo Domingo, 1920, 1925.
Crane Pacific, Field Museum, 1928-1929. Crane-Peabody Museum, New Guinea, 1937-1938.
Served from captain lieutenant colonel Medical Corps, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1917-1919, colonel Medical Reserve, since 1924. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Medical Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Medical Association Georgia, Georgia Academy Science, American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, American Society Topical Medicine, Tuberculosis Association Beta Kappa. Club: Cosmos.
Married Marguerite Eleanor Widle, June 1, 1925. Children: Marguerite Eleanor, Elizabeth, William Lorenzo, World World War II Resident house officer Johns Hopkins Hospital.