William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29, 1855, West Hartford – January 25, 1921, Boston) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. William T. Sedgwick completed his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1877 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881.

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  • William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29, 1855, West Hartford – January 25, 1921, Boston) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. William T. Sedgwick completed his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1877 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1883 until his death in 1921, aged 65, initially as Associate Professor (1884), as tenured Professor (1891) and eventually as head of the department of Biology and Public Health. Also, he was curator of the Lowell Institute from 1897 on. Sedgwick was the first president of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1899-1901. He also played a key role in Samuel Cate Prescott's choice to go into bacteriology as a career, and was instrumental in Prescott's selection in the canning research with William Lyman Underwood in 1895–6 that would lead to the growth of food technology. The American Public Health Association established the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in 1929 in his honor, for distinguished service and advancement of public health knowledge and practice. It is considered the APHA's highest honor.
  • William Thompson Sedgwick war Mitbegründer des modernen Gesundheitswesens der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. William T. Sedgwick absolvierte sein Erststudium an der Sheffield Scientific School der Yale University im Jahr 1877 und promovierte anschließend an der Johns Hopkins University im Jahr 1881. Er lehrte als Professor am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) von 1883 bis 1921, zunächst als Associate Professor (1884), als Professor (1891) und schließlich als Leiter der Abteilung für Biologie und Öffentliche Gesundheit (Public Health).
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  • William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29, 1855, West Hartford – January 25, 1921, Boston) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. William T. Sedgwick completed his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1877 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881.
  • William Thompson Sedgwick war Mitbegründer des modernen Gesundheitswesens der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. William T. Sedgwick absolvierte sein Erststudium an der Sheffield Scientific School der Yale University im Jahr 1877 und promovierte anschließend an der Johns Hopkins University im Jahr 1881.
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  • William Thompson Sedgwick
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