Background
McCarty, Maclyn was born on June 9, 1911 in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Son of Earl Hauser and Hazel Dell (Beagle) McCarty.
McCarty, Maclyn was born on June 9, 1911 in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Son of Earl Hauser and Hazel Dell (Beagle) McCarty.
AB, Stanford University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1937. Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1976.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Florida, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rockefeller University, 1982. Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical College Ohio, 1985.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Emory University, 1987. Doctor of Science (honorary), Wittenberg University, 1989. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Cologne, Germany, 1988.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1995. Division of Medical Sciences (honorary), Thomas Jefferson University, 1999. Doctor of Science (honorary), Harvard University, 2000.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 2001.
Assistant Resident in Paediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital 40. Fellow in Medicine, New Ycrk University 1940-1941. Fellow in Medical Sciences of National Research Council (with O. T. Avery), Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) 1941-1942, Active Duty (United States.N.R.) Naval Research Unit 1942-1946, Association, and Association Physician 1946-1948, Association.
President 1965-1978, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Professor 1977-1981, Professor Emeritus since 1981. Vice-President Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee since 1960.
Member distribution committee New York Community Trust, 1966-1974. Chairman Health Research Council City New York, 1972-1975. Member board trustees Helen Hay Whitney Found.
Chairman board directors Public Health Research Institute of New York, 1985-1992. Served with Naval Medical Research Unit, Rockefeller Hospital United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association Immunologists, Society of America Bacteriologists, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (president 1973-1975), Harvey Society (secretary 1947-1950, president 1971-1972), New York Academy Medicine (Academy medal 1979, John Stearns award for lifetime achievement in medicine 1993), Association American Physicians (Kober medal 1989), National Academy of Sciences (Kovalenko medal 1988), American Academy Arts and Sciences, New York Heart Association (1st vice president 1967, president 1969-1971), American Philosophical Society.
Married Anita Alleyne Davies, June 20, 1934 (divorced 1966). Children: Maclyn, Richard E., Dale Dinunzio, Colin Avery. Married Marjorie Steiner, September 3, 1966.