The Gorgas Medal was originally established as an annual award in 1915 by the Medical Reserve Corps Association of New York in honor of Surgeon General...
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poor. Born in Toulminville, Alabama, Gorgas was the first of six children of Josiah Gorgas and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. His maternal grandparents were Governor...
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Gorgas may refer to Edgar Gorgas (1928–2019), German boxer Josiah Gorgas (1818–1883), Confederate General and later President of the University of Alabama...
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John Stapp (category National Medal of Technology recipients)
accomplishment an incredible miracle." In 1957, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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based on the suggestion that bedbugs could be a potential vector. 1969 Gorgas Medal (shared with Karl Johnson) Webb retired to the UK in 1988. She was described...
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Merit Citation Gorgas Medal, 1958. "Ebersole, Medical Officer of the Seawolf, record-breaking atomic submarine, received the Gorgas Medal, scroll, and $500...
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his efforts to eradicate smallpox. In 1987, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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Malcolm C. Grow (category Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal)
especially in research, won for him the John Jeffries Award in 1947, the Gorgas Medal in 1950 and many others, including many from other nations. Just prior...
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George W. Goethals – engineer of the Panama Canal Major General William C. Gorgas – Surgeon General of the Army Major General Patrick J. Hurley Major General...
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psychology awards Competitions and prizes in biotechnology "Edwin Grant Conklin Medal". Society for Developmental Biology. Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian, eds. (2002)...
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Harvard School of Public Health. In 1942, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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and Distinguished Service Medal. In 1972, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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those who opposed water fluoridation. In 1949, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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that causes ‘Legionnaires' disease’. In 1963, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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of themselves in the service of others". 1999: The William Crawford Gorgas Medal: National Award presented by the American College of Military Surgeons...
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Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service 1994 - Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy 1994 - Gorgas Medal from the...
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General. For his work on rinderpest in the Philippines, he received a Gorgas medal in 1946. After retirement he served as a professor of bacteriology at...
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James O. Mason (category Recipients of the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal)
directorship of the CDC until 1989. In 1993, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS)...
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Panama Canal. In 1913 he was invited by Gorgas to work in German East Africa, and the next year, also with Gorgas, he worked in Johannesburg for Rand Mines...
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Jefferson Randolph Kean (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1938. He was awarded the Gorgas Medal by the Association of Military Surgeons in 1942. Kean married Louise...
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Medicine, member Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, 1960 Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Department of the...
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Paul Ramsey Hawley (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
he was one of four officers of the battalion awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit of Nicaragua. Among the other three officers receiving the award...
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Ben Kean (section Ben Kean Medal)
Physicians and Surgeons, Kean completed his medical internship and residency at Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone and later remained on the hospital's staff...
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The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society "in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally". The award was created...
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natural resources of the United States." George W. Goethals and William C. Gorgas (1914) "For their distinguished services in connection with the building...
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Robert Miller Montague (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
did not recover, and died on February 20 from a cerebral hemorrhage at Gorgas Hospital, Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. Robert M. Montague is buried at Arlington...
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Harry Herbert Miller (category United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients)
Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Spanish–American War. Harry Miller enlisted...
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Walter Reed (category Congressional Gold Medal recipients)
to control the spread of the disease. This discovery helped William C. Gorgas reduce the incidence and prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases in Panama...
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Naming Commission (section Medal of Honor recipients)
graves. Redstone Arsenal has a laboratory named after CSA general Josiah Gorgas. List of United States Navy ships commemorating the Confederate States of...
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Elvin A. Kabat (category National Medal of Science laureates)
Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, and Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama. Additionally, he was a member of the World...
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