Background
Tower, Donald Bayley was born on December 11, 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Walter Sheldon and Edith Florence (Jones) Tower.
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Tower, Donald Bayley was born on December 11, 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Walter Sheldon and Edith Florence (Jones) Tower.
AB, Harvard University, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1944. Master of Science, McGill University, Montreal, 1948.
Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, 1951. Doctor of Science (honorary), McGill University, Montreal, 1984.
Tower Fretwell. Intern in surgery University of Minnesota Hospital, Minneapolis, 1944-1945. Research fellow neurochemistry Montreal Neurological Institute, 1947-1948, 49-51, assistant resident in neurosurgery, 1948-1949, associate neurochemist, 1951-1953. Instructor, then assistant professor experimental neurology McGill University Medical School,1951-1953.
Joined United States Public Health Service, 1953, assistant surgeon general, 1975-1981.
Chief section clinical neurochemistry National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland., 1953-1961, chief laboratory neurochemistry, 1961-1974, director National Institute Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, 1974-1981. Clinical associate professor neurology Georgetown University Medical School, 1953-1981.
Chairman United States neurochemistry delegate to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1969. Temporary adviser Neuroscience World Health Organization, 1976-1981, neurosciences delegation to Peoples Republic of China, 1979, retired.
(Book by Donald Bayley Tower, Johann Thomas Hensing)
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Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Peruvian Society Psychiatry, Washington Academy Medicine (board directors 1985-1991), Society Neuroscis., International Brain Research Organization (central council 1973-1991), Canada Physiological Society, Canada Neurological Society, American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Neurochemistry (co-founder 1968, historian), International Society Neurochemistry, American Academy Neurology, Neurology & Neurosurgery (honorary), American Neurological Association (honorary).
Married Arline Belle Croft, August 5, 1947. 1 child Deborah Alden Tower Fretwell.