Background
Herndon, Claude Nash was born on February 23, 1916 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Claude Nash and Annie Lee (Mann) Herndon.
Herndon, Claude Nash was born on February 23, 1916 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Claude Nash and Annie Lee (Mann) Herndon.
Bachelor of Arts, Duke U., 1935; Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, 1939; postgraduate, University of Michigan, 1941-1942.
Intern, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, 1939-1940;
Carnegie fellow medical genetics, Bowman Gray School Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1940-1941;
research associate, University of Michigan, 1941-1942;
instructor, Bowman Gray School Medical, Wake Forest U., 1942-1945;
assistant professor, Bowman Gray School Medical, Wake Forest U., 1945-1951;
associate professor, Bowman Gray School Medical, Wake Forest U., 1951-1954;
professor medical genetics, Bowman Gray School Medical, Wake Forest U., 1954-1998;
department chairman preventive medicine and genetics, 1957-1970;
associate dean research development, 1966-1979;
senior associate dean, 1979-1989. Member genetics research advising committee Atomic Energy Commission, 1955-1958. Member of advisory committees on research career awards and health research facilities National Institutes of Health, 1957-1969.
Mem.population committee National Institute Child Health and Human Development, 1970-1974.
Member American Society Human Genetics (director 1951-1958, president 1955), American Eugenics Society (president 1952-1955).
Married Margaret Forester Caldwell, October 10, 1942. Children: Anne Herndon, Claude Nash III.