Background
Scammon, Richard Everingham was born on July 9, 1883 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of James and Laura (Everingham) Scammon.
Scammon, Richard Everingham was born on July 9, 1883 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of James and Laura (Everingham) Scammon.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1904. Master of Arts, 1906; Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences, Harvard, 1909. Doctor of Laws, Saint Thomas Aquinas College, 1933.
Instructor zoölogy, University of Kansas, 1906-1907. Austin teaching fellow, Harvard Medical School, 1907-1909. Instructor same, 1909-1910.
Assistant professor anatomy, University of Kansas, 1910-1911.
Assistant professor anatomy, 1911-1913, associate professor, 1913-1914. Professor, 1914-1930, University of Minnesota.
Professor anatomy and dean of Division Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, 1930-1931. Dean of medical sciences, University of Minnesota, 1931-1935, distinguished service professor, graduate school since 1935.
Benjamin Radeford Knox lecturer, University of Cincinnati.
Porter lecturer, University of Kansas, 1934. De Lamar lecturer, Johns Hopkins, 1935. President Minnesota Board of Examiners in the Basic Sciences, 1927-1930.
Chairman Minnesota State Planning Board, 1934-1941.
Chairman Minnesota Resources Commission since 1939. Member of advisory board of Minnesota Institute Government Research.
Member American Association Anatomists (vice president 1928-1930), American Statis, Association, American Mathematics Society, American Society Naturalists, American Academy Pediatrics, Mathematics Association America, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Minnesota Academy Medicine, American Physiological Society, Sigma Xi, Nu Sigma Nu, Gamma Alpha, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Julia Simms, June 14, 1913. Children: Richard Montgomery, Jean.