Background
Corner, George Washington was born on December 12, 1889 in Baltimore. Son of George Washington and Florence (Evans) Corner.
Corner, George Washington was born on December 12, 1889 in Baltimore. Son of George Washington and Florence (Evans) Corner.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1909, Doctor of Medicine 1913. Doctor honoris causa, Catholic U. Chile, 1942. Doctor of Science, University Rochester, 1944, Boston University, 1948, Chicago, 1958, Jefferson, 1971, Rockefeller U., 1975.
Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1955, Temple University, 1956, Johns Hopkins, 1975. M.D.S. (honorary), Women’s Medical College, Philadelphia, 1958. Doctor of Science, University of Oxford, 1950, Master of Arts, 1952.
Doctor of Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1965.
; children—George Washington, Hester Ann (deceased). Medical assistant Grenfell Labrador Mission, summers, 1912-1913. Assistant anatomy Johns Hopkins, 1913-1914.
Resident house officer Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1914-1915. Assistant professor anatomy, University of California, 1915-1919. Associate professor anatomy Johns Hopkins, 1919-1923, professor emeritus of embryology.
Professor anatomy U. Rochester, 1923-1940, also curator Medical Library, 1938-1940. Director department of embryology Carnegie Institute Washington, 1940-1956. Historian Rockefeller Institute, 1956-1960.
Executive officer American Philosophical Society, 1960-1977, editor, from 1977. George Eastman visiting professor University of Oxford, 1952-1953. Vicary lecturer Royal College Surgeons, London, 1936.
Vanuxem lecturer Princeton, 1942. Terry lecturer Yale, 1944. Research professor Commonwealth Fund, U. Louisville Medical School, 1946.
United States delegate International Congress of Endocrinology, 1941, president congress, 1964. President International Congress of Anatomists, 1960. Managing editor, American Journal Anatomy, 1939-1941.
Trustee emeritus Samuel Ready School.
Clubs: Century (New York City).
Married Betsy Lyon Copping, December 28, 1915 (deceased. Children: George Washington, Hester Ann (deceased).