Simeon B. Wolbach

(1880-1954) born at Grand Island. Pathologist, educator, proved the means of transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1916 and of typhus fever in 1920, while at Harvard Medical School from 1922 to 1947 he demonstrated the importance of infectious disease, pediatric pathology, and vitamin research to the field of biology, and formed the fundamentals of modern understanding of infections; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1938, and recipient of Mead Johnson Award in 1935 and Howard T. Ricketts Award in 1950. Consult New York Times obituary, March 20, 1954, p. 15 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 46 (1963) 274-275 and American National Biography, Vol 23 (1999) 717-718.

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