Cecil Kent Drinker

Cecil Kent Drinker
portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker as a child, by his aunt Cecilia Beaux, 1891
Born17 March 1887 Edit this on Wikidata
Philadelphia Edit this on Wikidata
Died14 April 1956 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 69)
Falmouth Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationPhysician, physiologist Edit this on Wikidata
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Spouse(s)Katherine Rotan Drinker Edit this on Wikidata
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Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 โ€“ April 19, 1956) was an American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of radium on the women painting luminous dials. Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., industrial hygienist Philip Drinker and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen. Cecilia Beaux, the artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was his aunt.

Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker, a fellow physician.

References

  • Means J. H. (1956). "Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 69: 11โ€“3. PMID 13380935.
  • "Katherine Rotan Drinker, 1889-1956 and Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health. 15 (1): 74โ€“5. 1957. PMID 13393814.
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