Cecil Kent Drinker

OccupationPhysician, physiologist EmployerSpouse(s)Katherine Rotan Drinker Parent(s)

Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 19, 1956) was an American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 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 Bowen.

Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker.

References

• Means J. H. (1956). "Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 69: 11–3. PMID 13380935.
• "Katherine Rotan Drinker, 1889-1956 and Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". A.m.a. Archives of Industrial Health. 15 (1): 74–5. 1957. PMID 13393814.
• Rozwadowski, Helen M. (2000). "Drinker, Cecil Kent". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300439.
• "The Founders & Deans of HSPH".
• "Deadly occupation, forged report".
• "Lab partners, life partners".

External links

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