Background
Swingle, Wilbur Willis was born on January 11, 1891 in Warrensburg, Missouri, United States. Son of Jacob and Emma Lucy Swingle.
Swingle, Wilbur Willis was born on January 11, 1891 in Warrensburg, Missouri, United States. Son of Jacob and Emma Lucy Swingle.
AB, AM, University Kansas, 1916. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1920.
Fellow in zoology University Kansas, 1916, instructor, 1917-1918. Instructor zoology Yale University, 1920, assistant professor, 1921-1926. Professor, head department zoology State University Iowa, 1926-1929.
Professor biology Princeton University, from 1929, Edwin Grant Conklin professor, 1933-1956, Henry Fairfield Osborn research professor, 1956-1959, senior research associate biology, 1959-1963. Head section adrenal physiology Bureau Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, New Jersey Neuro-psychiatric Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1963.
Fellow New York Academy of Sciences. Member American Society Zoologists, American Association Anatomists, American Society Physiologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association for Study of Internal Secreation (council 1931-1932), American Society Naturalists, Princeton Club, Sigma Xi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Chi.
Married Emily Gerken, November 2, 1916 (divorced). Married Alice Sullivan, April 1929. Children: Stephen Grey, Philip Colin.