Background
THORN, George was born on January 15, 1906 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of George W. and Fanny (Widmer) Thom.
THORN, George was born on January 15, 1906 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of George W. and Fanny (Widmer) Thom.
Student, College of Wooster, 1925. Doctor of Medicine, University Buffalo, 1929. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1942.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Harvard University, 1987. Doctor of Science (honorary), Temple University, 1951. Doctor of Science (honorary), Suffolk University, 1961.
Doctor of Science (honorary), College Wooster, 1963. Doctor of Science (honorary), New York Medical College, 1972. Doctor of Science (honorary), Boston University, 1983.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Dalhousie University, 1950. Doctor of Laws, Queen's University of Canberra, 1954. DMed, Catholic University, Louvain, 1960.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Geneva, 1965. Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical College of Ohio, Toledo. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rockefeller University, 1993.
, University Buffalo, 1995.
Assistant University of Buffalo 1931-1934. Rockefeller Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital 1934-1935. Assistant Professor Department, of Physiology, Ohio State University 1935-1936.
Association Professor, of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Association Physician Johns Hopkins Hospital 1936-1942. Physician-in-Chief, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Hersey Professor, of Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard University 1942-1972, Emeritus since 1972. Samuel A. Levine Professor, of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 1967-1972, Emeritus since 1972.
Director of Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1956-1978. Executive Committee since 1978, Chairman Medical Advisory Board since 1978. Executive Committee of Corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1965. First Wingate Johnson Visiting Professor, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University 1972. President Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston 1981-1984, Chairman Board and Trustee. Consultant United States Public Health Service, etc. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London. Lecturer, Royal College, of Physicians, London 1966. Commander.
Corporation and of; National Advisory Committee on Radiation. Society Colombiana de Endocrinologia (Bogota), Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Royal Academy, of Medicine (Belgium), Norwegian Medical Society, Swedish Medical Society.
Married 1st Doris Weston in 1931 (died in 1984). Married 2nd Claire Steinert in 1985.