Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 19, 1956) was a

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

and founder of the

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard- MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's firs ...

. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of

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on the women painting luminous dials. Drinker's father was railroad man and

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Ep ...

president

Henry Sturgis Drinker Henry Sturgis Drinker (8 November 1850 – 27 July 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and the fifth president of Lehigh University. Biography Drinker was born in Hong Kong, the third child of expatriate Philadelphia Qu ...

; his siblings included

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and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr. Henry Sandwith Drinker (September 15, 1880 – 1965) was an American lawyer and amateur musicologist. In 1964, the American Bar Association gave Drinker the American Bar Association Medal, stating that Drinker's monumental work ''Legal Ethics' ...

industrial hygienist Occupational hygiene (United States: industrial hygiene (IH)) is the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation (ARECC) of protection from hazards at work that may result in injury, illness, or affect the well being of work ...

Philip Drinker Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 – October 19, 1972) was an industrial hygienist. With Louis Agassiz Shaw, he invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928. Family and early life Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University ...

and

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Catherine Drinker Bowen Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958. Biography Bowen was born Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College ...

. Drinker was married to

Katherine Rotan Drinker Katherine Rotan Drinker (1889 – March 15, 1956) was an American physician. Early life Katherine Rotan was born in 1889 to mother Kate Sturm McCall Rotan and father Edward Rotan of Waco, Texas. She was one of nine children. Education Drinker ...

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External links

Cecil Kent Drinker papers, 1898-1958. H MS c165. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
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