Background
Black, Samuel Paul West was born on December 19, 1916 in Barbourville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Read Postlethwaite and Louise (West) Black.
Black, Samuel Paul West was born on December 19, 1916 in Barbourville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Read Postlethwaite and Louise (West) Black.
Bachelor of Science, Yale University, 1940. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1943.
House officer general surgery, New Haven Hospital, 1944, 46-47; resident neurological surgery, Yale University, New Haven, 1948-1950; instructor neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, 1950-1952; assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1952-1955; professor neurosurgery, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1955-1982; professor emeritus, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1982-1990; director intracranial aneurysm study department pathology, U. Missouri, Columbia, from 1982. Visiting scholar Green College University of Oxford, 1982.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member New England Neurosurg. Society (executive committee 1953-1955), American Association Neurological Surgeons, Australian Computer Society, Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Southern Neurosurgical Society, Missouri Medical Society, Missouri Neurosurg.
Society (vice president 1980-1981), Sigma Xi. Clubs: Austrian Mountain, Pithotomy. Rotary (Columbia) (president 1981-1982).
Married Betty Lohman, December 23, 1944. Children– Susan Postlethwaite, John Sheldon, Nancy Read, Samuel Paul West.