Background
Spink, Wesley W. was born on December 17, 1904 in Duluth. Son of George Charles W. and Caroline (Kuntz) Spink.
Spink, Wesley W. was born on December 17, 1904 in Duluth. Son of George Charles W. and Caroline (Kuntz) Spink.
AB, Carleton College, 1926. D. Science (honorary), Carleton College, 1950. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1932.
Research scholar, Harvard Medical School, 1933.
Intern IV Medical Service (Harvard), 1933-1934. Resident physician Thorndike Memorial Laboratory (both Boston City Hospital), 1934-1937. Assistant in medicine Harvard Medical School, 1934-1937.
Assistant professor medicine University Minnesota Medical School, 1937-1941, associate professor, 1941-1947, professor, 1947-1967, Regents' professor medicine, 1967-1973, professor comparative medicine, 1970-1973. Emeritus Regents' professor medicine and comparative medicine, 1973-1988. Consultant brucellosis to World Health Organization.
Director Brucellosis Research Center of the United States, 1951-1973, World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations.
Charter member American Board Microbiology. Master American College of Physicians (board regents 1960-1966, president 1963-1964). Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Honorary fellow Royal Australasian College Physicians. Member American Veterinary Medical Association (honorary), New York Academy of Sciences (honorary), American Society Clinical Investigation (president 1949), American Clinical and Climatological Association, Association American Physicians (emeritus), American Association Immunologists, Society United States Air Force Internists and Allied Specialists (honorary), Central Society Clinical Research (president 1950), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Minnesota Academy Medicine, Harvard Medical Alumni Association (president 1967-1968), Minnesota Medical Association, Minneapolis Society Internal Medicine (honorary), Infectious Disease Society of America (emeritus, Bristol award 1983), Minnesota Pathol. Society (president 1944), Minneapolis Academy Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Elizabeth Hamilton Hurd, August 29, 1935. Children: Helen Gayden (Mistress Robert DuPont, Junior), George Wesley (deceased), William Wesley.