Background
WHITE, Benjamin was born on January 15, 1879 in Cooperstown, New York, United States. Son of Reginald Heber and Fannie Elizabeth (Grant) White.
WHITE, Benjamin was born on January 15, 1879 in Cooperstown, New York, United States. Son of Reginald Heber and Fannie Elizabeth (Grant) White.
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, B.Ph., 1900, Doctor of Philosophy, 1903. Student in Bacteriology, Protozoology, and Serology, Imperial Institute, for Infectious Diseases, Berlin, 1906-1907.
Assistant, to Dr. Jehle in study of bacteriology of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, St. Anna’s Kinderspital, Vienna, 1906-1907. Director, Department of Bacteriology, Hoagland Laboratory, 1907-1909. Consultant in Bacteriology to Long Is.
College Hospital.; Assistant Director Bacteriological Labs., Department of Health, City of New York, in charge of Antitoxin Labs., Otisville, New York, 1914- Captain, Sanitary Corps., United States Army, 19. Assistant Director Division. of Biologic Labs., Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1920. Director, 1920-1922, since 1924.
Assistant Prof, of Bacteriology and Immunology and Preventive Medical and Hygiene, faculties of Medical. Public Health and Applied Biology, Harvard U. Editorial Staff. New England Journal of Medical. since 1927.
Author of numerous articles in various medical and scientific journals.
Member: Massachusetts Medical Society (Honorary). Aesculapian Society (Honorary). (F.) American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
(F.) American Association for the Advancement of Science. (F.) American Public Health Association. Association of American Pathologists and Bacteriologists.
Society of American Bacteriologists. Society for Experimental Biology and Medical. National. Tuberculosis Association.
American Association of Immunologists. Sigma Xi. Clubs: Harvard (Boston), Yale (Boston), Boston Bacteriological.