Subject: Yale University School of Medicine
United States Public Health Service
University of Western Ontario
American Society of Human Genetics
University of Oslo
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases of New York City
University of Paris
Type: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1937
C. 1937
Topic: Women scientists
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5337]
Summary: In this photograph, titled "Most Famous Cancer Researchers in the World," are shown (left to right):
geneticist Clarence Cook Little (1888-1971);
physiologist Edgar Allen (1892-1943);
biologist Howard Bancroft Andervont (1898-1981);
geneticist Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893-1962);
physician Leiv Kreyberg (b. 1896);
biophysicist Gioacchino Failla (1891-1961); and
radiation oncologist Henri Coutard (1876-1950).
At the time the photograph was taken, Little headed the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Allen was professor of anatomy at Yale University Medical School; and Andervont was with the U.S. Public Health Service. Macklin was then associate professor of histology and Embryology at University of Western Ontario, and later served as president of the American Society of Human Genetics. Kreyberg taught at the University of Oslo; Failla was then working at the Cancer Memorial Hospital of New York City; and Coutard was chief of the department of x-ray therapy for cancer at the Radium Institute, University of Paris
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