Background
Sweet, William Herbert was born on February 13, 1910 in Kerriston, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Sweet, William Herbert was born on February 13, 1910 in Kerriston, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor of Science, University Washington, 1930. Bachelor of Science, Oxford University, 1934. Doctor of Science, Oxford University, 1957.
Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1936. DHC (honorary), Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble, France, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), Ohio State University, 1993.
Rhodes research c, fellow, National Hospital for Nervous Disease, London. Assistant in neurosurgery Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1945-1947, assistant neurosurgeon, 1947-1948, associate visiting neurosurgeon, 1948-1957, visiting neurosurgeon, 1957-1961, chief neurological service, 1961-1977, senior neurosurgeon, 1977-1996, neurosurgeon, from 1996. Assistant in surgery Harvard University Medical School, 1945-1946, instructor surgery, 1946-1947, associate in surgery, 1947-1948, assistant professor surgery, 1948-1954, associate clinical professor, 1954-1958, associate professor, 1958-1965, professor, 1965-1976, professor emeritus, from 1976.
Honorary surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, since 1996. Consultant, lecturer in field. Trustee Neuro-Research Foundation Inc., since 1951, president, since 1971.
Trustee Neuroscis. Research Foundation Inc., since 1961, president, 1961-1976.
Science trustee Associate Universities Inc. (AUI), representative Harvard University, 1958-1982, honorary trustee, since 1982. Served with Army of the United States, 1941-1945.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Pain Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Surgery, American Academy Neurology, American College of Surgeons, American Association Neurological Surgeons, American Neurological Association, American Physiological Association, American Surgical Association, Association de chirgiens Suisses (correspondent), Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, Congress Neurological Surgeons (honorary), Electroencephalographic Society, Halsted Society, International Association for Study Pain, International Brain Research Organization, International Society Psychiatric Surgery, International Society Surgery, Italian Neurosurg. Society (correspondent), New England Neurosurg. Society, Research Society Neurological Surgeons, Royal Society Medicine, Scandinavian Neurosurg.
Society (correspondent), Societe de Neuro-Chirurgie de Langue Francaise (honorary), Society British Neurological Surgeons, Society for Neurosci., Spanish-Portuguese Neurosurg. Society (honorary), Society Neurological Surgeons, Egyptian Society Neurological Surgeons (honorary).
Married Paul Williams and Daisy Eleanor (Pool) S. Married Elizabeth Jane Dutton, July 29, 1978. Children: David Rowland, Gwendolyn Sweet Fletcher, Paula Sweet Carroll.