William Thompson Sedgwick

Background

Sedgwick, William Thompson was born on December 29, 1855 in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of William and Anne Thompson (Barbour) Sedgwick.

Education

Bachelor of Philosophy, Sheffield Scientific School (Yale), 1877. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1881. (honorary Doctor of Science, Yale, 1909).

Career

Instructor physiological chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, 1878-1879. Fellow, and associate biology, Johns Hopkins, 1879. Assistant professor, associate professor and professor biology, now professor biology and public health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1883.

Biologist Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1888-1896.

Curator Lowell Institute, Boston, since 1897. Chairman Pauper Institutions’ Trustees, 1897-1899, and (1899-1900) Institutions’ Registrar, City of Boston.

Trustee Simmons College, since 1899. President of the board directors Sharon Sanatorium, since 1902.

Member of advisory board Hygienic Laboratory United States Public Health Service, since 1902.

Vice president Boston Society Municipal Officers, 1898-1900. President Boston Civil Service Reform Association, 1900, Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association, 1901, Society American Bacteriologists, 1900.

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1905).

Member State Department Health of Massachusetts, International Health Board, Rockefeller Foundation. Chairman Harvard Technology School of Public Health. Author: General Biology (joint author), 1886.

Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers (assistant editor), 1896.

Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health, 1902. The Human Mechanism (joint author), 1906.

A Short History of Science (joint author), 1917. Home: Boston, Massachusetts

Achievements

• William Thompson Sedgwick has been listed as a noteworthy biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of advisory board Hygienic Laboratory United States Public Health Service, since 1902. Vice president Boston Society Municipal Officers, 1898-1900. Member State Department Health of Massachusetts, International Health Board, Rockefeller Foundation.

Connections

Married Mary Katrine Rice, December 29, 1881.

Father:

William Sedgwick

Mother:

Anne Thompson (Barbour) Sedgwick

Spouse:

Mary Katrine Rice