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Lawrence, John Hundale was born on January 7, 1904 in Canton, South Dakota, United States. Son of Carl Gustavus and Gunda (Jacobson) Lawrence.
(John Hundale Lawrence (January 7, 1904 - September 7, 199...)
John Hundale Lawrence (January 7, 1904 - September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and physician best known for pioneering the field of nuclear medicine. John Hundale Lawrence was born in Canton, South Dakota. His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda (née Jacobson) Lawrence, were both the offspring of Norwegian immigrants who had met while teaching at the high school in Canton, South Dakota, where his father was also the superintendent of schools. His brother was physicist Ernest O. Lawrence. He attended college at the University of South Dakota before getting his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in physics in 1957. He had a long-term association with the University of California, Berkeley and worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There he discovered treatments for leukemia and polycythemia by injecting infected mice with radioactive phosphorus derived from the cyclotron invented by his brother, the Nobel Laureate Ernest O. Lawrence. Lawrence's work with cancer patients attracted the interest of William Donner, a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist, whose son had died of cancer. Donner contributed funds for construction of Donner Laboratory, at the Northeast corner of the Berkeley Campus that was dedicated in 1942. John Lawrence received the Enrico Fermi Award in 1983. He received honorary degrees from the University of South Dakota, University of Bordeaux and from the Catholic University of America. He was awarded the Caldwell Medal of the American Roentgen Ray Society; the MacKenzie Davidson Medal of the British Institute of Radiology ; a medal from Pope Pius XII; the Silver Medal of the University of Bordeaux; the Silver Cross of the Greek Royal Order of the Phoenix and the Pasteur Medal of the Pasteur Institute of Paris.
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Lawrence, John Hundale was born on January 7, 1904 in Canton, South Dakota, United States. Son of Carl Gustavus and Gunda (Jacobson) Lawrence.
Bachelor of Arts South Dakota, 1926. Doctor of Science honoris causa, University South Dakota, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1930.
Doctor honoris causa, University Bordeaux, France, 1958. Doctor of Science honris causa, Catholic University America, 1959.
Intern, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1930-1931;
postdoctoral, Strong Memorial Hospital, U. Rochester, 1931-1932;
postdoctoral, Yale University, New Haven Hospital, 1932-1934;
associate physician, Yale University, New Haven Hospital, 1934-1937;
instructor medicine, Yale University, 1934-1937;
professor medical physics, physician-in-chief Donner Pavillion, University of California, Berkeley, 1937-1991;
director emeritus Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
regent, University of California, Berkeley. William H. Welch lecturer, Ludwig Kast memorial lecturer, 1949, Stephen Walter Ranson memorial lecturer, Von Hevesy memorial lecturer, and others, 1949-1973;Atomic Energy Commission consultant, visiting professor Association of Energy Engineers of India, U. Bombay, 1961. Visiting professor medicine American U., Beirut, Lebanon, 1963, Ohio State University, 1965.
Richardson lecturer Harvard University, 1963. Pasteur Institute lecturer, 1963. Member science and technical advising committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965-1967.
Leader medical mission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1974.
(John Hundale Lawrence (January 7, 1904 - September 7, 199...)
Fellow American College of Physicians, American Nuclear Society. Distinguished fellow American College Nuclear Medicine. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Society Nuclear Medicine (honorary member, president 1966), American Association Neurological Surgeons, Endocrine Society, La Society Francaise de Physique, Biologilue et Medical (honorary), We.
Association Physicians, American Physiological Society, European Society Hematology (honorary), Harvard Medical Alumni Association (president 1945-1946, 62-63), Pacific Interurban Clinical Club (honorary), Bohemian Club, Explorers Club, Faculty Club University of California, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Amy McNear Bowles, June 20, 1942. Children: John Mark, Amy Sheldon, James Bowles, Steven Ernest.