Background
Ginsberg, Harold Samuel was born on May 27, 1917 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Son of Jacob and Anne (Kalb) Ginsberg.
Ginsberg, Harold Samuel was born on May 27, 1917 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Son of Jacob and Anne (Kalb) Ginsberg.
AB, Duke University, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, Tulane University, 1941. Doctor of Science (honorary), Tulane University, 1995.
Degree (honorary), Tulane University, 1996.
Resident, Mallory Institute Pathology, Boston, 1941-1942;
intern, assistant resident, Boston City Hospital, 4th Medical Service, 1942-1943;
resident physician, associate, Rockefeller Institute, 1946-1951;
associate professor preventive medicine, Western Reserve U. School Medicine, 1951-1960;
professor microbiology, department chairman, University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, 1960-1973;
professor microbiology, department chairman, College Physicians and Surgical Columbia, 1973-1985;
professor microbiology and medicine, director section molecular pathogenesis of infection, College Physicians and Surgical Columbia, 1986-1997. Part time expert scientist National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland., since 1993. Member of commission acute respiratory diseases Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1959-1973.
Consultant National Institutes of Health, 1959-1972, 75-, Army Chemical Corps, 1962-1964, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969-1973, Am.Cancer Society, 1969-1973, member county on research and personnel, 1976-1980. Vice president International Committee on Nomenclature of Viruses, 1966-1975. Member space science board, chairman panel microbiology National Academy Science, 1973-1974.
Chairman microbiology examination committee National Board Medical Examiners, 1974-1979. Member microbiology and infectious disease committee National Institute Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, 1976-1981, chairman, 1979-1981. Co-chairman Institute Medicine, NAS Roundtable: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Modern Approaches Vaccines and Anti-Viral Drugs, 1989-1992.
Member United States National Committee for International Union of Microbiological Socs. (USNC/IUMS), National Research Council, since 1992.
Served to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences., Association American Physicians, American Academy Microbiologists (chairman board governors 1971-1972, board governors 1993-1999), American Society Clinical Investigation (councillor 1958-1960), American Association Immunologists, American Society Microbiology (chairman virology division 1961-1962, councillor division 1977-1981), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association Medical School Microbiology Chairmen (president 1972-1973), Harvey Society (president 1984coun.
1985-1988), Center Society Clinical Research, American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Virology (president 1983), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Marion Reibstein, August 4, 1949. Children: Benjamin Langer, Peter Robert, Ann Meredith, Jane Elizabeth.