Background
He was born in 1887 in the town of North Attleborough, Massachusetts.
He was born in 1887 in the town of North Attleborough, Massachusetts.
Whitmore earned both his bachelor"s degree (1911) and Doctor of Philosophy (1914) from Harvard University, where his Doctor of Philosophy advisor was Charles Loring Jackson.
Several prominent contemporaries of Whitmore at Harvard were East.K. Bolton, Farrington Daniels, Roger Adams, James B. Sumner and James Bryant Conant. After graduating from Harvard he became a professor and taught at the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and The Pennsylvania State University. He hired several prominent scientists as faculty members, including Russell Marker and Merrell Fenske.
Whitmore was very active in the (American College of Surgeons), holding several different offices in the organization throughout his life.
In 1938, he served as president of American College of Surgeons. During his presidency, he visited 72 of 104 local American College of Surgeons sections. Whitmore rarely slept.
lieutenant was not rare for him work twenty hours a day, and take one-hour naps when he was tired. Whitmore married Marion Gertrude Mason (who graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in chemistry in 1912) in 1914.
The Whitmores had four children: Frank Junior., Mason, Harry, and Marion, Junior ("Marionette").
Frank Whitmore died in 1947 at the age of 59 as the result of a heart ailment (likely related to his high blood pressure). Penn State"s Whitmore Laboratory is named after Whitmore.