Helen Kaiser in the Helen L. Kaiser Library. The plaque text reads: "This library has been designated the Helen L. Kaiser Library by the Board of Trustees of Duke University in honor of Helen Louise Kaiser, R.P.T. for her dedicated service to the...
Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Beard seated at micrscope, examining slides. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. Dorothy...
Left to right, Arena, Davison, and McGovern standing. Arena and Davison both wearing glasses. Presentation inscription: "To Jay Arena from Dave W. Davison."
Julian Deryl Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and...
Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
Perlzweig was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine. He served as professor of biochemistry from 1929 to 1949. His research interests were primarily in the biochemistry of nutrition. Together with Frederic Moir Hanes, Wiley D....
Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
Barnes Woodhall was the chief of Duke University Medical Center Division of Neurosurgery from 1937 to 1960. He became the second dean of the School of Medicine, serving from 1960 to 1964. Barnes Woodhall received his medical degree from the John...
Dr. Dennis Bernard Amos was professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University from 1962 to 1993. Slide is one in a series of 20 slides from the same photo shoot.
Frank Libman Engel was chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1960 to 1963, and a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1963. He was known for research in endocrinology and metabolic diseases.
Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the effect of diet on various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Observing that those diseases were...
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Wiley Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
Portrait of Dr. Frances Widmann, who came to Duke in 1971 to direct the blood bank at the Durham Veteran's Administration Hospital and to teach in the Duke Department of Pathology. She was also assistant chief of the laboratory service at the...
(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...
(Three groups from left to right) Staff, including Bessie Baker (dean) at the front of the line, and administrators; first class of the School of Nursing students (in black tights); nurses of Duke Hospital. The first class entered on January 1931...