Background
Long, Esmond Ray was born on June 16, 1890 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Harper and Catherine Belle (Stoneman) Long.
Long, Esmond Ray was born on June 16, 1890 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Harper and Catherine Belle (Stoneman) Long.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1911, Doctor of Philosophy, 1919. Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College (University of Chicago), 1926. Postgraduate German University of Prague.
Doctor of Science (honorary).
University of Pennsylvania, 1948.
Esmond Ray. Assistant in pathology University of Chicago, 1911-1913. Assistant desert laboratory of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Tucson, 1914-1915. Trudeau fellow Saranac Laboratory, Saranac Lake, New York, 1918, 20.
Instructor pathology University of Chicago, 1919-1921, assistant professor, 1921-1923, associate professor, 1923-1928, professor, 1928-1932.
Professor pathology University of Pennsylvania, 1932-1955. Also director laboratory, Henry Phipps Institute for Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1932-1935, director Institute, 1935-1955, emeritus professor pathology University of Pennsylvania and department community medicine, from 1955.
Trustee Leonard Wood Memorial, American Leprosy Foundation, 1970-1972. Traveling representative Pan-American Sanitary Bureau, 1941.
President Wistar Institute Anatomy and Biology, 1939-1942.
Served from lieutenant colonel to colonel Military Cross, Australia, 1942-1946. Member National Research Council, 1932-1955 (chairman division medical science 1936-1939, chairman sub-committee Tuberculosis, 1940-1942, 46-47, 55-60, Chairman of Commission on veterans medical problems 1956-1960), National Tuberculosis Association (president 1936-1937, director medical research 1947-1955), American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president, chairman of the section on medical science 1936-1937), American Thoracic Society, Association American Physicians, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists (president 1936-1937, Gold Headed Cane 1971), American Society for Experimental Pathology, American Philosophical Society, American Association for History Medicine (president 1939-1941), American College of Physicians, National Academy Sciences, College of Physicians (Phila). Member European and South. American medical and tuberculosis societies.
Member of the United States national commission on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1951-1954.
Married Marian Boak Adams, June 17, 1922. Children: Judith Baird (Mistress R.W. Neal).