Background
Dight was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1879.
Dight was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1879.
University of Michigan.
He was a medical professor and promoter of the human eugenics movement in the United States. state of Minnesota. He later worked at the university under professor Alonzo B. Palmer. He founded the Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics which actively pursued the same type of eugenics as Nazi medicine as well as the Minnesota Eugenics Society in 1923.
In 1933, Dight wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler praising his efforts to "stamp out mental inferiority." The institute was a part of the university until the late 1960s.
Dight, who became a staunch socialist, also taught at the American University of Beirut and the medical school at Hamline University which became part of the University of Minnesota in 1907.
