Education
Born in the small Iowa city of Essex, Enders attended the University of Michigan where he majored in zoology, earning an Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1927.
Born in the small Iowa city of Essex, Enders attended the University of Michigan where he majored in zoology, earning an Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1927.
His first posting was as assistant professor of biology at Union College and, the following year, at Missouri Valley College. In 1932 he was promoted to Professor, from which he retired in 1970. During the same 1932 year he had visited Barro Colorado Island, where he had his research station in the Panama Canal Zone.
After that, he continued to visit it every so often, as a Professor.
He was an Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Swarthmore College in 1966 as well. Enders died at his home in Swarthmore at the age of 88.
He then visited the island again as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.