Wilburt Cornell Davison, Joseph Beard, and Dorothy Beard standing together. Dr. Davison was the first dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University. Joseph and Dorothy Beard were researchers in the fields of virology and immunology.
(Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School of...
(Left to right) Richard Sherman Lyman, Wilburt Cornell Davidson, Robert Lee Flowers, Adolph Meyer, Robert Sproul Carroll, and Frederic Moir Hanes. Lyman was chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Duke from 1940 to 1951. Davidson was Dean of the...
Davison was pediatrician, chair of pediatrics (1930-1954), and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1926, Duke University president William Preston Few recruited Davison away from Johns Hopkins University. Davison's charge...