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”’Cecil Kent Drinker”’ (March 17, 1887 – April 15, 1956) was an American [[physician]] and educator. He founded the [[Harvard School of Public Health]] and served as a professor from 1923 to 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of [[radium]] on the [[Radium girls|women painting luminous dials]]. |
”’Cecil Kent Drinker”’ (March 17, 1887 – April 15, 1956) was an American [[physician]] and educator. He founded the [[Harvard School of Public Health]] and served as a professor from 1923 to 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of [[radium]] on the [[Radium girls|women painting luminous dials]]. |
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Drinker’s father was railroad man and [[Lehigh University]] president [[Henry Sturgis Drinker]]; his siblings included [[lawyer]] and [[musicologist]] [[Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr.]], [[industrial hygiene|industrial hygienist]] [[Philip Drinker]] and [[biographer]] [[Catherine Drinker Bowen]]who won an national book award for nonfiction in 1958. [[Cecilia Beaux]], the artist and the first woman to teach art at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], was his aunt. |
Drinker’s father was railroad man and [[Lehigh University]] president [[Henry Sturgis Drinker]]; his siblings included [[lawyer]] and [[musicologist]] [[Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr.]], [[industrial hygiene|industrial hygienist]] [[Philip Drinker]] and [[biographer]] [[Catherine Drinker Bowen]]who won an national book award for nonfiction in 1958. [[Cecilia Beaux]], the artist and the first woman to teach art at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], was his aunt. |
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American physician and educator (1887-1956)
Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 15, 1956) was an American physician and educator. He founded the Harvard School of Public Health and served as a professor from 1923 to 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of radium on the women painting luminous dials.
Drinker’s father was railroad man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., industrial hygienist Philip Drinker and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowenwho won an national book award for nonfiction in 1958. Cecilia Beaux, the artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was his aunt.
Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker, a fellow physician.
He died April 15, 1956, in Falmouth, Massachusetts,[1] and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[2]
