Background
Boas, Norman Francis was born on August 4, 1922 in New York City. Son of Ernst Philip and Helen Boas.
(Anthropologist Franz Boas proved with compelling scientif...)
Anthropologist Franz Boas proved with compelling scientific evidence "that all men are created equal" and born with the same universal physical and mental attributes. The premise that "primitive man" was less endowed than the "highly civilized" white man was thus shown to be a myth. It was at Columbia University that Boas first established and defined anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was also intimately associated with the American Museum of Natural History as curator of anthropology and the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution as a contributing research scientist and honorary philologist. Franz Boas, a passionate believer in the truth, devoted the last twenty years of his life to a relentless fight against the forces of racism, not only in Nazi Germany, but in the United States and throughout the world. Norman Francis Boas, grandson of Franz Boas, is a physician, teacher, author, and historian and the only person now alive who is able to write a biography of Franz Boas as a humanitarian and a loving family man, based on personal recollections and unpublished material. - Mary Maples Dunn & Richard S. Dunn, Co-Executive Officers, American Philosophical Society. Imprimatur on Franz Boas biography. "Dr. Norman Boas is to be congratulated for undertaking to write a biography of his famous grandfather, Franz Boas. Others have written about Franz Boas the pioneering anthropologist and scientist...Norman Boas adds a new dimension. While he discusses Franz Boas's academic career in considerable detail, he places prime focus upon Franz Boas the devoted family man and public citizen who dedicated his life to 'the welfare of mankind.'" He thus brings a very valuable personal touch to his subject. This personal touch is especially helpful to readers in the twenty-first century, since almost all of Franz Boas's colleague and students have now died."
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Boas, Norman Francis was born on August 4, 1922 in New York City. Son of Ernst Philip and Helen Boas.
Student, University Wisconsin, 1939-1942; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945.
Intern, then resident, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1945-1947; fellow, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1947-1951; investigator, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1951-1955; senior attending physician, Norwalk (Connecticut) Hospital, 1955-1976; consultant, Lawrence & Memorial Hospitals, New London, Connecticut, 1976-1985; retired, Lawrence & Memorial Hospitals, New London, Connecticut, 1985. President Connecticut chapter Arthritis Foundation, Hartford. Assistant clinical professor Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 1975-1980.
(Anthropologist Franz Boas proved with compelling scientif...)
President Stonington History Society Senior surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1951-1991. Fellow Manuscript Society (vice president 1989-1991).
Married Doris Whitehead, March 14, 1945. Children: Deborah Howarth, Stephen, Barbara Johnson.