Ernest William Goodpasture

Background

Goodpasture, Ernest William was born on October 17, 1886 in Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Albert Virgil and Jennie Willson (Dawson) Goodpasture.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt, 1907. Honorary Master of Science, Yale. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 1912.

Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Chicago, Washington University Doctor of Laws, Tulane, 1957.

Career

Married second, Frances Katharine Anderson, May 23, 1945. Rockefeller fellow in pathology Johns Hopkins, 1912-1913, assistant and acting resident pathologist, instructor, 1913-1915. Resident pathologist Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1915-1918.

Assistant professor pathology, Harvard, 1918-1921.

Chief department pathology, bacteriology U. Philippines, Manila, 1922. Director William H. Singer Memorial Research Laboratory, Pittsburgh, 1922-1924.

Scholarship General Education Board of Rockefeller Foundation, at Institute for General and Experimental Pathology, Vienna, 1924-1925. Professor pathology, Vanderbilt University since 1924, dean school medicine, 1945-1950.

Member Army Epidemiological Board, 1941-1946.

Consultant Health Division Tennessee Valley Authority, since 1942. Science director International Health Division Rockefeller Foundation, 1938-1940, 1942-1944. Board directors Oak Ridge Institute Nuclear Studies since 1946.

Member of advisory board Life Insurance Medical Research Fund, 1945-1950.

Committee on Growth, Panel on Virus, National Research Council, 1946-1948. Member National Institutes of Health virus and rickettsia section, 1946-1949.

Advisory committee, division biology, medicine Atomic Energy Commission, since 1947.

Achievements

• Ernest William Goodpasture has been listed as a noteworthy pathologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve Force, 1918-1919. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1940). Member National Academy Sciences, (council, 1944-1948), American Philosophical Society, Association American Physicians (Kober medalist 1943), Southern Medical Association (research medalist 1937), Gorgas Society (honorary Alabama), American Association Pathology and Bacteriol.

(council since 1942.

Connections

Married Sarah Marsh Catlett, August 11, 1915. Married second, Frances Katharine Anderson, May 23, 1945.