Background
Cramer, William was born on June 2, 1878 in Brandenburg, Germany. Son of Siegmund and Olga (Harff) Cramer.
Cramer, William was born on June 2, 1878 in Brandenburg, Germany. Son of Siegmund and Olga (Harff) Cramer.
Student chemistry Munich University, 1896-1897, Berlin University, 1897-1900. Doctor of Science, Edinburgh University, 1903. Member Royal College of Surgeons and L.H.C.P., Ohio College, London, 1915-1917.
Cramer took the English Conjoint qualification after nine years as a chemical physiology lecturer at Edinburgh. He had worked briefly for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1904. He rejoined the organisation in 1914.
In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Francis H A Marshall, Alexander Crum Brown and James Cossar Ewart. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Cramer became a naturalised British citizen.
In 1933, he was an official British delegate at the International Cancer Congress in Madrid, and again in 1934 at the International Cancer Research conference in Paris. Throughout his career, Cramer authored numerous papers on cancer, physiology, and biochemistry.
His textbook, Practical Course in Chemical Physiology, had reached its fourth edition by 1920.
Cramer belonged to the Physiological Society, the Pathological Society, and the Biochemical Society.
Member scientific staff Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, 1903-1905. Member scientific staff, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, 1915-1939. Member medical faculty, Washington University, Saint Louis, since 1940.
Member Pathology
Club (Edinburgh), Biology-chemical Society, Physiological Society and Pathology Society (England), Royal Society Medicine (London), Leewenhoek Vereeniging (Amsterdam), American Association for Cancer Research. Member British Medical Association Committee on Radium Beam Therapy.
Married Belle Klauber, of New York, 1906. Children: Ian William David, Michael William Valentine.