Background
Fawcett was born on March 14, 1917 in Springdale, Iowa, United States; the son of Carlos J. and Mabel (Kennedy) Fawcett.
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1966
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Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Spermatozoon held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, and the Swope Conference Center of the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Mass. May 2-5, 1978. The topics of the 40 papers represent a melding of reproductive biologists' knowledge of the comparative and behavioral aspects of spermatozoa with cell biologists' analysis of membrane phenomena and motility mechanisms.
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1979
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1981
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This is a reference text to which teachers, graduate students, and biomedical investigators can turn for information. In molecular biology, much of the research is done on cell fractions or on cell lines that can be cultivated in vitro. While much is being learned, the assumption that cells function in the controlled environment of the culture vessel in exactly the same way that they do in the intact organism is questionable. Bloom and Fawcett serves as a valuable repository of information needed by molecular biologists when they attempt to apply their skills to the heterogeneous associations of interacting cells that make up the tissues and organs of the body. The book begins with a detailed description of the structure and function of the cell and its several organelles. This is followed by chapters on each of the basic tissues and on the organization of each of the organs. While other textbooks of histology confine themselves to coverage of the microscopic structures of tissues and organs, Bloom and Fawcett is distinguished by the inclusion of brief sections on the histophysiology of each of the organs. This book should be of interest to anatomists, cell biologists and the respective support institutions.
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1998
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Concise Histology is the successor to Bloom and Fawcett's Textbook of Histology, taking the best features of that classic textbook and presenting them concisely for today's courses that focus on core information and skills. Now in its second edition, Concise Histology presents the essential elements of the body at the cellular, tissue and systems levels, fully illustrated in colour throughout. Accompanying the text is a supplementary CD containing over 500 photograph-based Questions and Answers for practice and self-assessment.
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2002
Fawcett was born on March 14, 1917 in Springdale, Iowa, United States; the son of Carlos J. and Mabel (Kennedy) Fawcett.
Fawcett received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School, where he studied from 1938 to 1942.
Fawcett was commissioned as a captain in the United States Army of Medical Corps in 1943 and served as a surgeon in an Anti Aircraft Battalion in the European Theater in World War II. After the war he joined as an instructor the Department of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School. There Don worked on adipose tissue and the male reproductive system.
In 1955, Don was appointed a chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Cornell Medical School in New York and held the position for four years. In 1960, Fawcett became the Hersey Professor of Anatomy and chairman in the Department of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School. Fiften years later, he took a position of the Senior Associate Dean for Preclinical Sciences.
Fawcett left Harvard Medical School in 1977 and accepted a position as senior research scientist and director of electron microscopy at the International Laboratory for Research in Animal Diseases in Nairobi. After five years in Kenya, he moved to Montana in 1988, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Don learned the new technique in 1954 with Keith Porter at the Rockefeller Institute in New York where he described for the first time cilia and sperm flagella. Don Fawcett’s interest in the male reproductive system was initiated by his collaboration with M. H. Burgos when they described the fine structure and development of cat spermatids in 1955.
During Don's career, Fawcett made many important observations of cells and subcellular structures, including mitochondria, skeletal and cardiac muscle, brown fat, hepatocytes and spermatozoa.
Fawcett was the first to describe the 9+2 pattern of microtubules in cilia. He published over 200 papers on the ultrastructure of cells and organs and author "The Cell", an atlas of subcellular fine structures.
In honor of Don Fawcett, the Fawcett Lectures were established in 1988 to bring outstanding scholars in Cell Biology to Harvard Medical School.
In 1961, Fawcett was elected the first president of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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1998Fawcett was a member of American Academy of Arts and Science, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Microscopical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, American Association of Anatomists (president 1964-1965), New York Society of Electron Microscopists (president 1957-1958), American Society of Cell Biology (president 1961-1962), Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Don Fawcett married Dorothy Marie Secrest in 1941. They have 4 children.
