Simeon Wolbach
Harvard University
July 3, 1880 - March 19, 1954
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Scientific Discipline: Cellular and Developmental Biology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1938)
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Simeon B. Wolbach concentrated much of his career on the pathology of rickettsial diseases and vitamin deficiencies. He explained the axiom for the behavior of bacterial infections within a host and the effects vitamins have on tissue structure. His research with Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus advanced the understanding of the etiology and transmission of insect-vectored diseases.
Wolbach graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1903 and went on to serve as director of the Bender Hygienic Laboratories in Albany, NY, and as a pathologist at the Montreal General Hospital. Harvard offered him a faculty position as an assistant professor in 1910, and in 1916 he was appointed to the Departments of Bacteriology and Pathology. In 1922 he was named the Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Harvard, a position he held until 1947. He then took a position in Boston as the director of the Division of Nutritional Research at Children's Hospital until 1954.
