Background
Shepard, Charles Carter was born on December 18, 1914 in Ord, Nebraska, United States. Son of Charles Carter and Margaret Catherine (Ferguson) Shepard.
Shepard, Charles Carter was born on December 18, 1914 in Ord, Nebraska, United States. Son of Charles Carter and Margaret Catherine (Ferguson) Shepard.
Student, Stanford University, 1932-1935.
lieutenant was the diligent efforts of doctor Shepard, and cohort microbiologist Joseph McDade, which led to the 1977 discovery of the initially illusive bacterium Legionella pneumophila, the etiologic agent that causes ‘Legionnaires" disease’. Shepard was chief of the Leprosy and Rickettsia Branch at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 30 years, until his death on February 18, 1985. Each year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) present the Shepard Science Awards to the authors of the most outstanding peer-reviewed research papers published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ATSDR scientists.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Association Immunologists. American Academy Microbiology, American Society Microbiology, International Leprosy Society, Society Experimental Biological Medicine.
Married Regina Elizabeth Schmidt, November 22, 1939.