Biography:John Edward Blair
John Edward Blair (May 30, 1899, Monroe, Maine – March 26, 1980) was an American bacteriologist and serologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1962.
Biography
Blair graduated in 1920 with a bachelor's degree from Clark University. At Brown University, he graduated in 1921 with an M.S. and in 1923 with a Ph.D. in bacteriology. From 1923 to 1926 he was an instructor in bacteriology at Stanford University. In 1927 he became a bacteriologist and serologist at Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases.[1] He headed the hospital's department of bacteriology from 1927 to 1964,[2] when he became a consultant in bacteriology. In 1944, Blair and Joseph Buchman (1898–1965)[3] at the Hospital for Joint Diseases were awarded a contract for the investigation of the effects of penicillin on osteomyelitis lesions.[4] From 1964 to 1968 Blair was the head of the department of microbiology at Roosevelt Hospital (which is now named Mount Sinai West).[2][5]
Blair did research on tuberculosis, staphylococcal infections, and staphylococcal phage typing.[1][6] From 1958 to 1966 he chaired the International Commission on Staphylococcal Phage Typing[2][7] of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.
He was elected in 1933 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8] In 1957 he received the Kimble Methodology Research Aeard.[2][9]
In September 1923, John E. Blair married Lorraine Hunter Ferguson. They had two sons: Donald Ferguson and Malcolm John.[10]
Selected publications
- Blair, John E.; Reeves, David L. (1928). "The Placental Transmission of Bacteriophage". The Journal of Infectious Diseases 42 (5): 440–443. doi:10.1093/infdis/42.5.440.
- Buchman, Joseph; Blair, John E. (1945). "Penicillin in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis". Archives of Surgery 51 (2): 81–92. doi:10.1001/archsurg.1945.01230040086003. PMID 21005215.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cattell, Jaques, ed (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 220. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9CC4lCicQC&pg=PA220.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who's Who, Incorporated. 1968. p. 185. https://books.google.com/books?id=CZNNAQAAIAAJ&q=kimble++.
- ↑ Transactions of the New York Academy of Science. New York Academy of Sciences. 1967. p. 272. https://books.google.com/books?id=av8eAQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Diseases. Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute. 1957. p. 77. https://books.google.com/books?id=9YVJAQAAIAAJ&q=john+e.+blair.
- ↑ "Obituary. John E. Blair". ASM News 46 (9): 501–502. September 1980.
- ↑ "Part II. Program Highlights. Staphylococcal Infections". Highlights of Research Progress in Allergy and Infectious Diseases. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. 1960. pp. 51–55. https://books.google.com/books?id=ykalpG29Eb0C&q=blair+. (See p. 54.)
- ↑ Blair, John E.; Bynoe, E. T. (May 1958). "Variation in Three Staphylococcal Phages". Public Health Reports 73 (5): 465–466. doi:10.2307/4590154. PMID 13554736. PMC 1951590. https://books.google.com/books?id=r2jqI0voVHcC&pg=PA465.
- ↑ "Historic Fellows". https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic.
- ↑ American Professional Pharmacist. 23. 1957. https://books.google.com/books?id=YvcrAQAAMAAJ&q=kimble+award.
- ↑ "Obituary. Dr. Donald Ferguson Blair Sr.". The Telegraph (Macon, Georgia). June 16, 2011. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/macon/name/donald-blair-obituary?id=20918609.
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