Background
Bauer, Louis Hopewell was born on July 18, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Theodore and Ada Marian (Shute) Bauer.
Bauer, Louis Hopewell was born on July 18, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Theodore and Ada Marian (Shute) Bauer.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1909, Doctor of Medicine cum laude, 1912. Honor graduated from the United States Army Medical School, 1914, United States Army School of Aviation Medicine, 1920. Graduated from Army War College, 1926.
Doctor of Science, University of Sydney (Australia), 1955.
July 18, 1888 – February 2, 1964) was an American doctor who founded the Aerospace Medical Association in 1929. Doctor Bauer was the first medical director of the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce which became the Federal Aviation Administration (Federal Aviation Administration). He was Commandant of the School of Aviation Medicine between 1919 and 1925.
During 1926, he established a medical section in the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce.
On October 7, 1929, the Aeronautical Medical Association of the United States was founded by Bauer. He also founded the Journal of Aviation Medicine, the predecessor of the present Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal.
The first issue of this Journal was published in March, 1930. Bauer was the Journal"s editor for 25 years.
Bauer was President and Chairman of the American Medical Association and leader of the World Medical Association.
Is awarded by the Aerospace Medical Association. lieutenant is awarded annually "for the most significant contribution in aerospace medicine".
Member of the board of visitors Air University, 1957-1959. Served as lieutenant colonel and colonel, Medical Reserve Corps, 1927-1939. Fellow American College of Physicians, Aeronautical.
Medical Association (president 1929-1931).
Member World (secretary general 1948-1961, now consultant), American (trustee 1944-1951, chairman 1949-1951, president 1952-1953) medical associations, Medical Society State New York (president 1947-1948, president 2d district branch 1939-1941), Nassau County Medical Society (president 1938-1939), American Heart Association, Alpha Omega Alpha, Kappa Gamma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary Harvard). Member Cuban, Burma medical associations.
Mason. Club: Harvard (New York City, Boston).
Married Helena Meredith, December 27, 1913. Married second, Margaret Louise Macon, August 9, 1930.