Background
Castle, William Bosworth was born on October 21, 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Ernest and Clara Sears (Bosworth) Castle.
Castle, William Bosworth was born on October 21, 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Ernest and Clara Sears (Bosworth) Castle.
Graduate, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, 1914. Student, Harvard, University, 1917. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard, 1921.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1964. Master of Science, Yale, University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1936.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1952. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1966. Honorary Doctor of Science, Marquette University, 1969.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1972. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1964. Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Boston College, 1966.
Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1921-1923;
assistant physiology, Harvard School Public Health, 1923-1925;
assistant medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1925-1927;
alumni assistant, Harvard Medical School, 1927-1928;
assistant, Harvard Medical School, 1928-1929;
instructor to associate professor, Harvard Medical School, 1929-1937;
professor, Harvard Medical School, 1937-1957;
George Richards Minot professor medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1957-1963;
Francis Weld Peabody faculty professor medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1963-1968;
emeritus professor, Harvard Medical School, 1968-1990;
honorary curator, Harvard Medical School Archives, 1972-1983. Distinguished physician VA, 1968-1972. Senior physician West Roxbury (Massachusetts) VAHosp., 1972-1974, consultant, 1974-1979.
Associate physician Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital, 1929-1948, director, 1948-1963, junior visiting physician, 1933-1948, assistant visiting physician, 1948-1955, visiting physician, 1956-1963. Director II and IV Harvard Medical Services, 1940-1963, consultant physician, 1963-1973. Dir.Rockefeller Foundation Common for Study Anemia, P.R., 1931-1932.
Senior cons.hematology Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, 1955-1960. Consultant medicine Beth Israel Hospital, 1956-1963.
Master American College of Physicians (John Phillips prize 1932, Distinguished Teacher award 1978). Fellow emeritus American Academy Arts and Sciences. Honorary fellow Royal College Physicians London, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons Canada, Royal Australasian College Physicians, Royal College Physicians Edinburgh.
Member American Academy Tropical Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American Philosophical Society, American Society Clinical Investigation (president 1940-1941, from emeritus 1943), American Society Experimental Pathology, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Federation Clinical Research, Association American Physicians (George W. Kober medal 1962, president 1959-1960, emeritus from 1960), Boston Society Biologists, Massachusetts Medical Society, National Academy of Sciences (emeritus from 1976). Correspondent member Société Internationale Europeene Hematologie, l'Academie royale de Medecine de Belgique. Honorary member American Society Hematology, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Societas Medicorum Finlandae, British Medical Association, Royal Society Medicine London.
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Louise Muller, July 1, 1933. Children– William Rogers, Anne Louise.