Background
Strong, Leonell CLarence was born on January 19, 1894 in Renova, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clarence A. and Ella (Mead) Strong.
Strong, Leonell CLarence was born on January 19, 1894 in Renova, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clarence A. and Ella (Mead) Strong.
Bachelor of Science, Allegheny College, 1917. Doctor of Science, Allegheny College, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1922.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Perugia, Italy, 1957.
Associate professor St. Stephen's College, 1921-1925. Research fellow Harvard Medical School, 1925-1927. Research associate University Michigan, 1927-1930, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, 1930-1933.
Research associate cancer Yale Medical School, 1933-1953. Director biological station Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Springville, New York, 1953-1964. Visiting fellow Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, from 1964.
Belgium-American Foundation and Anna Fuller Fund lecturer, Europe, 1948. Guest lecturer International Gerontology Congress, St. Louis, 1951, London, 1954, Venice and Merano, Italy, 1957, Karolinska Institute, Stockhom, 1955, San Francisco, 2d Mammary Cancer Symposium, Perugia, 1957, International Cancer Congress, Atlantic City, 1939, St. Louis, 1947, London, 1958. Research professor University Buffalo Graduate School, from 1955.
Member National Research Council committee gastric cancer National Advisory Cancer Council. Member Royal Society Medicine (London), Genetics Society of America, American Association Cancer Research, French Association Cancer Research (associate), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Mason, Rotary.
Married Katherine Bittner, June 27, 1919. Children: Leonell Clarence (M.D.), Wilson W.