Background
Jordan, Edwin Oakes was born on July 28, 1866 in Thomaston, Maine, United States. Son of J. L. and E. D. (Bugbee) Jordan.
Jordan, Edwin Oakes was born on July 28, 1866 in Thomaston, Maine, United States. Son of J. L. and E. D. (Bugbee) Jordan.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1888. Doctor of Philosophy., Clark University, 1892. Student Pasteur Institute, Paris, 1896.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Cincinnati, 1920.
Chief assistant biologist Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1888-1890. Lecturer on biology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1889-1890. Fellow in morphology Clark University, 1890-1892.
Associate in anatomy, 1892-1893, instructor, 1893-1895, assistant professor bacteriology, 1895-1900, associate professor, 1900-1907, professor, 1907-1933, and department chairman hygiene and bacteriology, 1914-1933, emeritus, since 1933, University of Chicago. Chief of serum division and trustee McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, Illinois Editor of Journal of Preventive Medicine. Joint editor (with L. Hektoen and W. H. Taliaferro) Journal Infectious Diseases.
Member International Health Board of Rockefeller Foundation, February 1920-1927. Member board scientific directors, International Health Division of Rockefeller Foundation, 1930-1933. Member Medical; Fellowship’Board of National Research Council.
Married Elsie Fay Pratt, June 16, 1893. Children: Henry Donaldson, Edwin Pratt, Lucia Elisabeth.