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William H. Sebrell Jr.

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230:, Sebrell was co-director of the National Nutrition Program, which coordinated activities of all state agencies working in nutrition. This program aided food production and the maintenance of civilian health during the war years. In 1948 he became director of the Experimental Biology and Medicine Institute, and on October 1, 1950, he was appointed director of NIH. He held this post until his resignation on July 31, 1955, amidst the 361: 31: 525: 550: 197:(PHS) in 1926. After completing an internship at the PHS Marine Hospital in New Orleans, Sebrell was assigned to the Hygienic Laboratory (as the 43: 560: 440: 540: 282:"General History of Medicine Oral Histories: William H. Sebrell : An oral history / Interviewed by Albert Siepert, 1970 Dec. 8-9" 535: 555: 281: 545: 245:
and pioneered the growing acceptance of scientific nutrition as a regular function of modern state and local health departments.
215:, who demonstrated that pellagra is a deficiency disease. During the 1930s, Sebrell made many contributions to knowledge of the 530: 194: 211:, and made significant contributions to knowledge of dietary needs and deficiencies. He began his research career under 207:
A leading international authority on nutrition, Sebrell first recognized and described the dietary deficiency disease,
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Sebrell also organized Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition. In April 1971, he joined the staff of
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Sebrell helped to formulate the first international standards of nutrition for the
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and then enrolled in the medical school, receiving his M.D. in 1925.
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On September 29, 1992, Sebrell died from cancer at his home town in
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which resulted in children being injected with live polio virus.
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Director of the National Institutes of Health
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rolla Dyer
James Augustine Shannon
Portsmouth, Virginia
Pompano Beach, Florida
University of Virginia
Portsmouth, Virginia
University of Virginia
Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
Washington, D.C.
ariboflavinosis
Dr. Joseph Goldberger
anemias
cirrhosis
World War II
Cutter Incident
polio vaccines
League of Nations
Weight Watchers
Pompano Beach, Florida
"General History of Medicine Oral Histories: William H. Sebrell : An oral history / Interviewed by Albert Siepert, 1970 Dec. 8-9"
"Sebrell, William H."
Doubleday
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0-385-24236-0
"William Henry Sebrell Jr., M.D."

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