Isaac Montrose Taylor (June 15, 1921 – November 3, 1996) was an American physician and academic who served as dean of the Medical School of the

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from 1964 until 1971. His first marriage to Gertrude Woodard produced five children who all became professional musicians: Alex (1947),

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(1948),

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(1949), Livingston (1950), and Hugh (1952). Through his second marriage to Suzanne Francis Sheats, he fathered three more children: Andrew Preston (1983), Theodore Haynes (1986), and Julia Rose (1989). Taylor was born in Morganton, North Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his doctor of medicine from

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. He served as the chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina Medical School before serving as dean for ten years. In 1955, he joined the

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and became a medical officer. In 1957, he was a lieutenant commander and was a

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at McMurdo Station in

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for

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."'Resting' Germs Found in Antarctic"
'' Courier-News'', Plainfield, New Jersey, 73rd year, March 27, 1957, page 44.

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UNC School of Medicine History
It summarizes Taylor and his deanship as follows.
The Papers of Isaac M. Taylor
at Dartmouth College Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Isaac M. 1921 births 1996 deaths American bacteriologists Harvard Medical School alumni People from Morganton, North Carolina Taylor family (show business) United States Navy Medical Corps officers University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni University of North Carolina School of Medicine faculty 20th-century American physicians

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