Edwin O. Jordan
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1866 – 1936
Who was Edwin O. Jordan?
Edwin Oakes Jordan was a prominent American bacteriologist and public health scientist.
Jordan’s scientific work began in 1888 right after his graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had been a distinguished pupil of Professor William Thompson Sedgwick. He built the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Chicago. He was a meticulous researcher who produced "data of indisputable accuracy". "His analytic mind and unwillingness to draw conclusions except from sufficient data" are prominent in his reports on epidemics. He co-founded the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and was editor of the Journal of Preventive Medicine. He won the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in 1934. His textbook of bacteriology has gone through many editions.
Perhaps his most lasting contribution of continuing interest today is the 1925 book Epidemic Influenza, which reviewed the data on the Great Pandemic of 1918 to ascertain its causes.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1866
Thomaston - Also known as
- Edwin Jordan
- Edwin Oakes Jordan
- Died
- Sep 2, 1936
Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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