Background
Sherwood, Noble Pierce was born on March 24, 1882 in Greenfield, Indiana, United States. Son of Edwin Orlando and Elizabeth Elvira (Alexander) Sherwood.
Sherwood, Noble Pierce was born on March 24, 1882 in Greenfield, Indiana, United States. Son of Edwin Orlando and Elizabeth Elvira (Alexander) Sherwood.
Graduate Kansas Missouri Manual Training High School, 1901. Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Kansas, 1905, Master of Arts, 1911, graduate work Pasteur Institute (University of Michigan), 1911. Studied University of Chicago, summers 1912.
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Doctor of Philisophy, University of Kansas, 1921. B.M., University of Minnesota, 1923. Doctor of Medicine 1924.
December 1958); children—Noble, Margaret, Edwin. Engineering experiences with A.,T.&San Francisco and Kansas City Southern rys. Instructor in science, Trego County High School, 1908-1910.
With University of Kansas since 1910, successively as assistant instructor in botany and bacteriology, 1910-1911, instructor bacteriology, 1911-1914, assistant professor, 1914-1916, associate professor, 1916-1918, professor bacteriology and immunology.
1918-1952, professor emeritus, since 1952, department chairman, 1917-1949. Visiting professor microbiology, University of California field staff at U. Indonesia, 1955-1957.
Collaborator on research project Air Force, since 1955. Exchange professor Washington University School Medical, 1918.
Assistant department medical, University of Minnesota, 1922-1923.
Lecturer on history of medicine. Consultant bacteriologist Kansas State Board Health, 1911-1921. Past pathologist Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Consultant Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Special consultant United States Public Health Service, 1938. Member Kansas State Planning Board, 1938-1942.
Chairman Kansas State Laboratory Advisory Commission, 1947-1952. Teaching and doing research of sterlization of bandages for War Department at Washington University, 1918.
Organizer and director South.A.T.C. Hospital, University of Kansas, fall of 1918, and taught military hygiene and medical bacteriology.
Chairman of the Douglas County Cancer Clinic.
Member Kansas State Planning Board, 1938-1942. Fellow American Medical Association, American College Allergists (honorary), American Academy Microbiologists, American College of Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Kansas City Academy of Medicine. Member of Royal Society Health, Association of American Bacteriologists, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Association Immunologists, New York Academy Science, Kansas Pathological Society, Society of History of Medicine, American Association of University Professors, Kansas State Medical Laboratory Association (president 1924), Kansas State and Douglas County medical societies, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Sigma, Phi Beta Pi, Acacia.
Diplomat American Board Pathology.
Republican; Mason.; Clubs: University, Faculty.
Married Mary Edith Kepner, June 30, 1910 (deceased. Children: Noble, Margaret, Edwin.