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Francis was born on July 17, 1870 in Boston, Massachussets. He was the son of Joseph and Louise (Musler) Tondorf.
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Biography and Bibliography of George M. Kober, M.D., LL. D., Dean of the Georgetown University School of Medicine: Compiled and Arranged on the ... Birthday March 28, 1920 (Classic Reprint)
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A Vindication of Vivisection: A Course of Lectures on Animal Experimentation, by Men of the Highest Authority in the Medical and Other Professions (Classic Reprint)
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Francis Anthony Tondorf
Edit ProfileEducation
After graduating from the Boston College High School he entered the Society of Jesus and spent the next five years in classical studies at the novitiate in Frederick, Md.
In 1893 he went to Woodstock College at Woodstock, Md. , where he spent two years in the study of philosophy and in 1895 received the degree of A. B.
He received the degree of Ph. D. from Georgetown University in 1914.
Career
In spite of his later activities in other fields, his services as a Latin scholar and his skill in the construction of Latin verse in lapidary style were in frequent demand.
In the years 1895 to 1898 he taught a variety of subjects at Loyola College, Baltimore, and at St. John's College (later part of Fordham University), Fordham, N. Y.
At the end of this time he was sent to Johns Hopkins University for graduate work in mathematical physics. There he also did work in general biology and osteology (1898 - 99) and attended lectures in geological physics (1899 - 1900). Unfortunately he was not able to stay to finish his work for the doctorate, possibly because he was needed to teach the classics at Fordham the following year.
Returning in the fall of 1901 to Woodstock College, he spent three years in the study of theology, was ordained priest, and then was sent to Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. , where he remained, except for one year at Poughkeepsie and another at Fordham, until the time of his death. There he was professor of physics (1904 - 15), professor of biology (1912 - 29), and at various times also held professorships in astronomy, geology, German, and other subjects.
At Georgetown he founded the Georgetown seismological observatory, which was put into operation in January 1911. Besides carrying on the routine work of the observatory as director (1909 - 29), he found time to write a large number of popular articles on seismology and to give lectures on the subject, and in this way contributed very materially to the development of seismology in the United States. From 1916 to 1929 he prepared and published for the observatory The Registration of Earthquakes and Press Dispatches on Earthquakes.
In the fall of 1924 he made a study of the cause of failure of road surfacing, which he showed to be the transverse vibration of traffic. As a seismologist he was widely consulted. From 1913 to 1924 he lectured on physiology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. As head of the department of physiology he was a most vigorous champion of experimental medicine against the anti-vivisectionists. He published A Vindication of Vivisection (1920), to which a supplement was issued in 1922, and once appeared before a Senate committee (November 4, 1929) to testify on the subject. His other publications include Anniversary Tribute to George Martin Kober (1920) and Frank Baker . Professor of Anatomy an Appreciation (1923).
He died on November 29, 1929.
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A Vindication of Vivisection: A Course of Lectures on Animal Experimentation, by Men of the Highest Authority in the Medical and Other Professions (Classic Reprint)
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A Vindication of Vivisection: A Course of Lectures on Animal Experimentation, by Men of the Highest Authority in the Medical and Other Professions (Classic Reprint)
Membership
He was a member of the Society of Jesus.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of numerous other scientific associations.
Personality
He has been described as having "an almost boyish spirit of simplicity. "
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Roman Catholic