Background
Landing, Benjamin Harrison was born on September 11, 1920 in Buffalo. Son of Benjamin Harrison Senior and Margaret Catherine (Crohen) Landing.
Landing, Benjamin Harrison was born on September 11, 1920 in Buffalo. Son of Benjamin Harrison Senior and Margaret Catherine (Crohen) Landing.
AB, Harvard University, 1942; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945.
Intern pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1945-1946;
assistant resident, then resident pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1948-1949;
resident pathology, Boston Lying-in Hospital, 1949;
resident pathology, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1949;
pathologist, Children's Medical Center, Boston, 1950-1953;
pathologist, Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati, 1953-1961;
pathologist-in-chief, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, 1961-1988;
research pathologist, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, since 1988. Assistant pathologist Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1950-1953. From assistant professor to associate professor of University Cincinnati College Medicine, 1953-1961.
Professor pathologyand pediatrics University of Southern California School Medicine, Los Angeles, 1961-1991, professor emeritus, since 1991.
Chairman Pacific Southwest District Unitarian-Universalist Association, 1968-1970. President Burbank (California) Unitarian Fellowship, 1964-1966. Captain Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1946-1948.
Member Society for Pediatric Pathology (president 1973-1974), International Pediatric Pathology Society (president 1980).
Married Dorothy Jean Hallas. Children: Benjamin H., Susan L. Phillips, William M., David A.