Saul Krugman
New York University
April 7, 1911 - October 26, 1995
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Scientific Discipline: Microbial Biology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1976)
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Krugman matriculated at Ohio State University and earned his B.S. degree in 1932. He left to get another B.S. degree in 1934 from the University of Richmond. In 1939, he received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia. From 1941 to 1946, he served as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1948, after postgraduate work at several hospitals in New York, he settled down as a professor at the New York University School of Medicine where he served as the chairman of the department of pediatrics from 1960 until 1974. The same year he was elected chairman, Krugman became the Director of Pediatrics at both Bellevue Hospital and University Hospital. He was a member of the Association of American Physicians, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Pediatric Society where he was president in 1972. Krugman received numerous commendations for his contributions to pediatrics and virology including: the Robert Koch Gold Medal Award (1978), the Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society (1981), the American Red Cross Gold Medal (1982), and the Karl Lansteiner Memorial Award (1985).
