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as a biology instructor, becoming a biology professor in 1887 and founder of the university's biology department. He would hold the chair of biology for the remainder of his career. The same year he was named acting director of the department of zoology at Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute. In
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which were gaining popularity in the early 20th century. He argued that social factors must be taken into account when trying to understand human outcomes, and not merely genetics.
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Practical dairy bacteriology: prepared for the use of students, dairymen, and all interested in the problems of the relation of milk to public health
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During his career, Conn published more than 150 papers, as well as a series of school textbooks. He is notable for discovering that
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in 1881, receiving his Ph.D. on animal morphology, physiology, and histology in 1884 with a thesis titled, "Life-history of
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In addition to his work on bacteria and food safety, late in his career Conn also wrote against some of the theories of
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Men of Mark in Connecticut: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of Eminent Living Americans
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Agricultural bacteriology: a study of the relation of germ life to the farm, with laboratory experiments for students
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during his youth and had to be withdrawn from public school because of his poor health. Instead, he was educated at
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1889–90 he taught biology at Trinity College, then was director of the Cold Springs Biological Laboratory, today's
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Conn, H. J. (December 1948), "Professor Herbert William Conn and the founding of the Society",
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where he graduated second in his class with an A.B. in 1881. He entered graduate school at
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Social heredity and social evolution; the other side of eugenics
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Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary
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Introductory physiology and hygiene: for use in primary grades
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Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson, eds. (1908),
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An elementary physiology and hygiene for use in schools
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The Camembert type of soft cheese in the United States
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became a standard textbook in home economics courses.
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For the American rock climber and cave explorer, see
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Beginning in December, 1898, he helped to found the
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Presidents of the American Society for Microbiology
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Index

Jan and Herb Conn

Fitchburg, Massachusetts
rheumatic fever
Cushing Academy
Ashburnham, Massachusetts
Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
Thalassema
Boston Society of Natural History
Harold J. Conn
Wesleyan University
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
American Society for Microbiology
Connecticut Agricultural College
typhoid fever
oysters
dairy products
home economics
eugenics
Il metodo dell'evoluzione
Fratelli Bocca


doi
10.2105/ajph.7.5.480
PMC
1361961
PMID
18009666

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