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hans zinsser wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography toggle biography subsection 1 1 early life 1 2 career 1 3 last years 2 selected bibliography 3 see also 4 references 5 external links toggle the table of contents hans zinsser 11 languages مصرى تۆرکجه বাংলা deutsch español فارسی français gaeilge русский українська 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american physician bacteriologist and author 1878 1940 hans zinsser born november 17 1878 new york city died september 4 1940 age 61 new york city education timothy dwight school alma mater columbia university a b m a and m d known for typhus research rats lice and history scientific career fields physician bacteriologist epidemiologist workplaces columbia university stanford university harvard medical school doctoral advisor philip hanson hiss doctoral students william hammon rebecca lancefield hans zinsser november 17 1878 september 4 1940 was an american physician bacteriologist and author of over 200 medical articles and books 1 he spent many years researching typhus and developing a vaccine as an author his best known book was the 1935 chronicle of epidemic typhus titled rats lice and history his 1940 memoir as i remember him was one of the first national book award recipients 2 biography edit early life edit the son of german immigrants zinsser was born in new york city in 1878 he attended timothy dwight school on the upper west side of manhattan he obtained an a b from columbia university in 1899 and continued on at columbia to earn m a and m d degrees in 1903 3 in june 1905 he married ruby handforth kunz eldest daughter of mineralogist george frederick kunz 4 and they had two children 5 career edit zinsser as a us army medical corps officer in world war i after interning at new york city s roosevelt hospital from 1903 to 1905 zinsser was a practicing physician for a few years however he was more interested in the research and teaching side of medicine 6 and in 1908 accepted a position as instructor in bacteriology at columbia 4 in 1910 he was hired by stanford university to start a new bacteriology department 7 his initial title was associate professor the following year he was promoted to full professor in 1913 he returned to columbia as professor of bacteriology and immunology 4 some of the doctoral students he advised went on to distinguished careers among them rebecca lancefield although he did not permit her to work in his laboratory due to her gender 8 in 1923 he moved to harvard medical school where he was a professor and researcher until his death 9 us army distinguished service medal during world war i zinsser went to serbia in 1915 as a member of the american red cross sanitary commission 9 he later served in france in the us army medical corps and was promoted to lieutenant colonel he was awarded the distinguished service medal the citation for which read while acting as sanitary inspector of the 2nd army he organized perfected and administered with extraordinary and exceptional success a plan of military sanitation and epidemic disease control 10 he also received a military citation for taking exceptional risks to minister to wounded soldiers while under enemy fire he was awarded the order of st sava of serbia and the legion of honour in france 11 after the war zinsser held a one year term as president of the american association of immunologists 12 he was elected to the american academy of arts and sciences in 1923 13 the u s national academy of sciences in 1924 14 and the american philosophical society in 1937 15 in his scientific research zinsser spent many years studying typhus including the condition that came to be known as brill zinsser disease he isolated the typhus bacterium and developed vaccines for different strains of the disease 4 he wrote several books about biology and bacteria most notably rats lice and history 1935 a biography of typhus fever that combined his scientific knowledge of typhus with his wide reading in history and literature 16 he was also a published poet whose verses appeared in the atlantic monthly 11 zinsser mentored other scientists such as albert coons who helped devise the technique of immunohistochemistry and john franklin enders 17 who was a co recipient of the 1954 nobel prize in physiology or medicine 18 last years edit the gravesite of hans zinsser diagnosed with lymphatic leukemia in 1938 7 zinsser continued working at harvard medical school for another two years during that time he completed his unique autobiography as i remember him the biography of r s it was later learned the initials r s stood for romantic self he wrote the book in the form of the biography of a third person a friend whom he knew very well 9 as i remember him was a non fiction bestseller and won a national book award hans zinsser died of leukemia on september 4 1940 he was 61 19 he is interred in sleepy hollow cemetery in sleepy hollow new york selected bibliography edit infection and resistance an exposition of the biological phenomena underlying the occurrence of infection and the recovery of the animal body from infectious disease new york the macmillan company 1914 oclc 3172461 a text book of bacteriology a practical treatise for students and practitioners of medicine 4th ed new york d appleton and company 1918 lccn 18008310 co written with philip hanson hiss problems of the bacteriologist in his relations to medicine and the public health presidential address delivered december 29 1926 journal of bacteriology vol 13 no 3 march 1927 pp 147 162 a laboratory course in serum study 2nd ed new york the macmillan company 1921 lccn 21008376 co written with joseph gardner hopkins and reuben ottenberg peabody francis weld 1930 introduction by hans zinsser doctor and patient papers on the relationship of the physician to men and institutions new york the macmillan company resistance to infectious diseases new york the macmillan company 1931 lccn 31012720 rats lice and history being a study in biography which after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader deals with the life history of typhus fever boston little brown for the atlantic monthly press 1935 lccn 36017603 as i remember him the biography of r s boston little brown and company 1940 lccn 40027536 spring summer and autumn poems new york alfred a knopf 1942 see also edit brill zinsser disease rats lice and history references edit summers william c 1999 hans zinsser a tale of two cultures the yale journal of biology and medicine 72 5 341 7 pmc 2579027 pmid 11049165 books and authors the new york times february 16 1941 mueller jh december 1 1940 hans zinsser 1878 1940 journal of bacteriology 40 6 i2 753 doi 10 1128 jb 40 6 i2 753 1940 pmc 374674 pmid 16560389 1 2 3 4 wolbach simeon burt 1947 biographical memoir of hans zinsser 1878 1940 pdf national academy of sciences dr zinsser leaves estate to widow daughter son the springfield union springfield massachusetts september 14 1940 p 13 via newspapers com zinsser hans 1940 as i remember him the biography of r s boston little brown and company pp 102 03 186 lccn 40027536 1 2 hans zinsser m d past presidents and officers american association of immunologists retrieved july 9 2026 o hern elizabeth 1975 rebecca craighill lancefield pioneer microbiologist pdf asm news 4 805 810 1 2 3 hans zinsser dies doctor and writer world s leading authority on typhus is a victim of leukemia at 61 the new york times september 5 1940 hume edgar erskine 1925 the medical book of merit united states army and navy decorations awarded to medical officers for distinguished service in the world war washington d c the association of military surgeons p 54 lccn 25008024 1 2 zinsser hans national cyclopaedia of american biography new york james t white company 1950 volume xxxvi pp 35 36 aai past presidents and officers american association of immunologists retrieved july 9 2026 hans zinsser american academy of arts sciences february 9 2023 retrieved may 22 2023 member directory hans zinsser national academy of sciences archived from the original on july 17 2019 retrieved may 22 2023 member history hans zinsser american philosophical society retrieved may 22 2023 zinsser hans 1935 rats lice and history being a study in biography which after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader deals with the life history of typhus fever reprinted in 1963 1996 black dog leventhal publishers and 2007 transaction publishers john franklin enders and modern vaccines manuscripts and archives blog campuspress yale edu retrieved december 6 2020 john f enders ph d past presidents and officers american association of immunologists retrieved december 6 2020 dr hans zinsser dies at age of 61 the baltimore sun september 5 1940 p 7 via newspapers com external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to hans zinsser hans zinsser papers at the center for the history of medicine at the countway library harvard medical school works by hans zinsser at project gutenberg v t e presidents of the american society for microbiology 1900 1925 william thompson sedgwick 1900 william henry welch 1901 herbert william conn 1902 theobald smith 1903 frederick george novy 1904 edwin oakes jordan 1905 erwin frink smith 1906 james carroll 1907 harry luman russell 1908 joseph james kinyoun 1909 veranus alva moore 1910 frederic poole gorham 1911 william hallock park 1912 charles edward amory winslow 1913 charles edward marshall 1914 david hendricks bergey 1915 thomas jonathan burrill 1916 leo frederick rettger 1917 robert earle buchanan 1918 samuel cate prescott 1919 charles krumwiede jr 1920 francis charles harrison 1921 lore alford rogers 1922 edwin george hastings 1923 arthur parker hitchens 1924 norman macleod harris 1925 1926 1950 hans zinsser 1926 robert stanley breed 1927 alice catherine evans 1928 ludvig hektoen 1929 stanhope bayne jones 1930 james howard brown 1931 edwin broun fred 1932 william mansfield clark 1933 milton joseph rosenau 1934 karl friedrich meyer 1935 thomas milton rivers 1936 james morgan sherman 1937 paul franklin clark 1938 arthur trautwein henrici 1939 charles thom 1940 oswald theodore avery 1941 selman abraham waksman 1942 rebecca craighill lancefield 1943 ira l baldwin 1944 stuart mudd 1945 james craigie 1946 thomas francis jr 1947 harold joel conn 1948 william mcdowell hammon 1949 barnett cohen 1950 1951 1975 walter james nungester 1951 rené dubos 1952 gail monroe dack 1953 cornelis bernard van niel 1954 halvor orin halvorson 1955 charles arthur stuart 1956 perry william wilson 1957 harry eagle 1958 philip rarick edwards 1959 charles albert evans 1960 herald rea cox 1961 john edward blair 1962 robert lyman starkey 1963 john roger porter 1964 orville wyss 1965 riley dee housewright 1966 william bowen sarles 1967 salvador edward luria 1968 dennis wallace watson 1969 edwin michael foster 1970 robert edward hungate 1971 morris frank shaffer 1972 robert george everitt murray 1973 linzy leon campbell 1974 philipp gerhardt 1975 1976 2000 helen riaboff whiteley 1976 harlyn odell halvorson 1977 aaron frederick rasmussen jr 1978 edwin herman lennette 1979 willis a wood 1980 albert balows 1981 frederick c neidhardt 1982 john charles sherris 1983 robert pierce williams 1984 rita rossi colwell 1985 moselio schaechter 1986 jean brenchley 1987 barbara hotham iglewski 1988 alice shih hou huang 1989 walter dowdle 1990 joan wennstrom bennett 1991 richard lane crowell 1992 john ingraham 1993 gail cassell 1994 david schlessinger 1995 carol a nacy 1996 kenneth i berns 1997 stanley falkow 1998 stuart levy 1999 julian davies 2000 2001 present martha howe 2001 abigail a salyers 2002 ronald atlas 2003 thomas e shenk 2004 james tiedje 2005 stanley robert maloy 2006 diane e griffin 2007 clifford wayne houston 2008 alison d o brien 2009 roberto kolter 2010 bonnie bassler 2011 david c hooper 2012 jeffery f miller 2013 jo handelsman jan feb 2014 jeffery f miller mar dec 2014 timothy donohue 2015 lynn w enquist 2016 susan e sharp 2017 peggy cotter 2018 robin patel 2019 victor dirita 2020 steven finkel 2021 colleen kraft 2022 virginia l miller 2023 authority control databases international isni viaf gnd fast worldcat 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