Sanford R. Gifford

(1892-1944) born in Omaha. Physician, ophthalmologist, microbiologist, educator, investigated ocular diseases caused by bacteria and fungi, researched the biochemistry of the eye and problems of a general physical condition such as diabetes and vascular disease, identified the likely causes of the previously unknown agricultural conjunctivitis, authored or co-authored some 150 publications, including two widely used textbooks in 1932 and 1938, served as an editor of an American and German journal, posthumous recipient of Howe Gold Medal in 1944. Consult New York Times obituary, February 26, 1944, p. 13 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 3 (1973) 301-302 and Dictionary of Medical Biography, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 1984) 290-291.

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