Background
Davison, Wilburt Cornell was born on April 28, 1892 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of William L. (Doctor of Divinity) and Mattie E. (Cornell) D.
Davison, Wilburt Cornell was born on April 28, 1892 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of William L. (Doctor of Divinity) and Mattie E. (Cornell) D.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1913. Senior Demy (Rhodes scholar 1913-1916), Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1915-1917. Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford, 1915, Bachelor of Science, 1916, Master of Arts, 1919.
Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1917.
Doctor of Science, Wake Forest College, 1932. Doctor of Laws, University North Carolina, 1944, Duke, 1961.
Instructor, associate professor, acting head department pediatrics, assistant dean, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1919-1927. Associate pediatrician, acting pediatrician in charge, editor Bulletin Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1919-1927. Dean, James Doctorate. Duke professor pediatrics Duke School Medicine, 1927-1961.
Consultant Womack Army Hospital.
Member medico advisory board Cooperative American Relief Everywhere. Trustee Duke Endowment.
Vice president board directors Doris Duke Foundation.
Member division medical science National Research Council, vice chairman 1942-1943. Member commission on veterans medical problems. Member committee atomic casualties National Research Council.
Member medical advising committee North Carolina Board Mental Health.
Member medical advisory panel Oak Ridge Institute Nuclear Studies. Member of council chief consultant Virginia.
Member dean’s committee Durham Veterans Administration Hospital. Member North Carolina governor’s working committee Research Triangle Development Council, North Carolina Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee
Member Civilian Health and Medical Advisory Council.
Served with Atomic Energy Commission, 1914-1915. France, Serbia; Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Hope Valley Country, Roaring Gap Yacht.
Married Atala Thayer Scudder, June 2, 1917. Children: William Townsend, Atala Jane Scudder Levinthal, Alexander Thayer.