Ralph Leroy Thompson

Background

Thompson, Ralph Leroy was born on November 15, 1873 in Lisbon, Maine, United States. Son of Haley P. and Mehitable (Smith) Thompson.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1896, Master of Arts, 1901. Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1900. Graduate student, University of Berlin.

Fellow Rockefeller Institute, 1902-1903.

Career

Pathology house officer and 2d and 1st assistant in pathology, Boston City Hospital, 1901-1905. Assistant professor pathology, Saint Saint Louis University, 1905-1907, professor since 1907, now professor emeritus. Director National Pathology

Laboratory, Saint Louis, also hospital commissioner, 1933-1941, First lieutenant United States Army Medical R. C., 1910-1915.

Pathologist, 23d General Hospital, B.E.F., Etaples, France, summer 1915. Editor Missouri State Medical Journal, 1942-1947, editor emeritus, 1947.

Achievements

• Ralph Leroy Thompson has been listed as a noteworthy pathologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Association Cancer Research, American Medical Association. Clubs: University, Artists Guild.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Scammell Schuyler, May 28, 1918.

Father:

Haley P. Thompson

Mother:

Mehitable (Smith) Thompson

Spouse:

Elizabeth Scammell Schuyler