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Dr. Turner joined the faculty of the School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1936 and was appointed professor and chair of the Department of Bacteriology in 1939. He left the University in 1942 to join the Army, but returned at the end of the World War II to build up the Department of Bacteriology. Ultimately, the department would grow to incorporate virology as well as immunology, and its name was changed to Microbiology in 1952. That same year, the Department assumed responsibility for teaching microbiology in the School of Medicine. In 1957, Turner left the School to become dean of the School of Medicine. From 1968 until 1982 he served as the first archivist of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. |
Thomas Bourne Turner, former chair of the School’s Department of Bacteriology and dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died September 22 at the age of 100. Dr. Turner spent nearly 75 years at Hopkins and made significant contributions to the study of syphilis and expanded the roll of microbiology at the School. Cover | Hopkins Public Health Headlines | In Memoriam
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