Background
Loeb, Robert Frederick was born on March 14, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Jacques and Anne (Leonard) Loeb.
Loeb, Robert Frederick was born on March 14, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Jacques and Anne (Leonard) Loeb.
Educated Horace Mann School (New York City) 1910-1913, University of Chicago, 1913-1915, Doctor of Science, 1951. Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude, Harvard, 1919, Doctor of Science, 1969. Doctor honorary causa, U. Strasbourg, 1951, U. Paris, 1952.
Doctor of Laws U. Wales, 1953, Amherst College, 1961.
Doctor of Science, New York University, 1955, Kenyon College, 1957, Columbia, 1961, U. Oxford, 1961, Dartmouth, 1962, Trinity College, Dublin, 1962, Rockefeller University, 1971.
Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1919-1920, Means visiting physician, 1959. Assistant resident Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1920-1921. Assistant in medicine Johns Hopkins University, 1920-1921.
Assistant resident Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1921-1923, resident, 1923-1924, assistant visiting physician, 1924-1930, associate attending physician, 1930-1945, attending physician, 1945-1947, director medical service, 1947-1960, consultant in medicine, 1960-1973.
Instructor Columbia College Pysicians and Surgeons, 1921-1923, associate in medicine, 1924-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1930, associate professor, 1930-1938. Visited German Medical Clinics on General Education Board grant, 1927-1928.
Associate medical director Neurological Institute, 1938-1941, professor medicine, 1938-1942, Lambert professor, 1942-1947, Bard professor, 1947-1960, emeritus, 1960-1973. Physician-in-chief pro tem Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1941.
Acting Regius professor medicine Oxford, U. 1961.
Eastman Memorial lecturer U. Rochester, 1939. Leo Loeb lecturer Washington University, 1944. Member National Science Board.
United States consultant Atomic Energy Commission advising committee biology and medicine.
Member of advisory board American Red Cross, 1946. Chairman of Commission on blood and blood substitutes National Research Council, 1941.
Chairman of the Board science counsellors National Heart Institute. Chairman medical board review United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1947.
Member United States Public Health Service National Advisory Health Council.
Vice chairman division medical science National Research Council, 1943-1944. Chairman Board for Coordination for Malarial Study, Washington, 1943-1946. Member President's Science Advisory Committee, 1951-1953, 59-62.
Consultant Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1944.
Trustee Rockefeller Foundation, 1947-1960, Rockefeller University, 1954-1970. Member board World Health Organization, 1959.
Overseer Harvard, 1961-1967. Member board National Science Foundation, 1950-1964.
Fellow Royal Australasian College Physicians (honorary), Royal College Physicians (honorary London), Royal Society Medicine (honorary, London), American College of Physicians (master, Distinguished Teacher award 1973). Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Association American Physicians (Kober medal 1959, president 1954-1955), Association Physicians Great Britian and Ireland, National Academy Science, Association for Study Internal Secretions, American Medical Association, Harvey Society (lecturer 1941, president 1950-1951), American Philosophical Society, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Interurban Clinical. Club, Practitioners Society New York, American Society for Clinical Investigation (president 1936), New York Academy of Medicine (vice president 1941-1944), British Medical Association (correspondent), Century Association, Royal Belgian Academy Medicine, Norwegian Medical Society, Danish Society Internal Medicine, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu.
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Married Emily Guild Nichols, February 12, 1935. Children: John Nichols, Elizabeth Guild.