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UNDER the plan begun in 1948 by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to assist qualified men and women wishing to remain in academic medicine, thirteen men of science have been awarded grants of 5,000 dollars a year, for five years, to maintain them in the medical schools of the United States and Canada in which they now hold faculty appointments. So far, twenty-nine such awards have been made. The thirteen new recipients, their fields of interest, and place of present appointment are as follow : Dr. Francis P. Chinard (University of California and Johns Hopkins), clinical chemistry and physiology, at Johns Hopkins University ; Dr. Don W. Fawcett (Harvard), microscopic anatomy, at Harvard Medical School ; Dr. Allan V. N. Goodyer (Yale), internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, at Yale University ; Dr. John B. Graham (Cornell), pathology, at the University of North Carolina ; Dr. John D. Green (Oxford), anatomy and physiology, at Wayne University College of Medicine ; Dr. George Watson James, III (Washington and Lee University), internal medicine and physiology, at the Medical College of Virginia ; Dr. Ralph Jones, jun. (West Virginia University and University of Pennsylvania), clinical therapeutics, at the University of Pennsylvania ; Dr. George E. Moore (University of Minnesota), surgery and onocology, at the University of Minnesota ; Dr. C. Barber Mueller (University of Illinois and Washington University), surgery and biochemistry, at Washington University; Dr. George W. Schwert, jun. (University of Minnesota), physical biochemistry, at Duke University ; Dr. Beverly T. Towery (Vanderbilt), internal medicine and endocrinology, at Vanderbilt University ; Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe (Cornell), pharmacology, at Cornell University ; Dr. Donald R. Wilson (Oxford and McGill), internal medicine and endocrinology, at the University of Alberta.
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Markle Foundation Scholarships in Medicine. Nature 163, 437–438 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163437c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163437c0