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DR. FREDERICK GEORGE NOVY, formerly professor of bacteriology and dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan, was presented with the 250,000th microscope produced by Messrs. Bausch and Lomb at a luncheon given to members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science during its summer sessions at Rochester, New York. Dr. Novy was selected for this honour by the executive committee of the American Association, for outstanding research in the field of bacteriology and immunology. He discovered and isolated the Bacillus Novyi, the agent of gas gangrene; he was the first to culture Trypanosoma Lewisi, and is the discoverer and isolator of Spirochceta Novyi, the cause of American relapsing fever. He has also made notable contributions to the study of filterable viruses, the respiratory processes of bacteria, and the causes of diphtheria, yellow fever and bubonic plague. A student of both Koch and Pasteur, Dr. Novy has the distinction of being the only person in the United States to-day who studied under Pasteur. France has made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; Czechoslovakia created him a member of the Order of the White Lion, and Sinclair Lewis has romanticized him in his book, “Arrowsmith”. For nearly fifty years, Dr. Novy was a member of the Medical Faculty of the University of Michigan, and is almost the last of the distinguished group gathered together by the late Dean Victor C. Vaughan. Dr. Novy's address at the luncheon, on “Some Results of Microscopic Research of Specific Significance for Human Welfare”, was preceded by brief addresses by Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, president of the American Association, Herbert Eisen-hart, president of Bausch and Lomb, and Dr. Edward Bausch who presented the 250,000th microscope of the company. It was Dr. Bausch's fifty-ninth year as a member of the Association.
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Dr. F. G. Novy. Nature 138, 67 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138067c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138067c0