Background
Cronkite, Eugene Pitcher was born on December 11, 1914 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Clarence Edgar and Anita (Pitcher) Cronkite.
Cronkite, Eugene Pitcher was born on December 11, 1914 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Clarence Edgar and Anita (Pitcher) Cronkite.
AB, Stanford University, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1940. Doctor of Science(honorary), Long Island University, 1962.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Ulm, Germany, 1987. Doctor of Medicine(honorary), University Parma, Italy, 1991.
Intern Stanford University Hospitals, San Francisco, 1939—1940, resident in medicine, 1941—1942. Commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1942, advanced through grades to rear admiral, 1969, retired, 1954. Head hematology Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, 1945—1954.
Senior scientist medical department Brookhaven National Laboratory, from 1954, chairman, 1967—1979. Professor medicine Health Science Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979—1992. Doctor of medicine Health Center University Ulm, Germany, 1987—1993.
Retired, 1993.
Contributor articles to medical journals.
Member of National Academy of Sciences, International Society Experimental Hematology (president 1976), American Association Physiologists, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Hematology 1970.
Tennis, photography and fishing.
Married Elizabeth Erna Kaitschuk, August 17, 1940. 1 child Christina Elizabeth.