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The West and Round Wings of Vanderbilt Hospital were completed in 1962, and the West Court (at the right edge of the photo) in 1964.

Roy Avery was professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt Medical School from 1931-1953.

Roy Avery was professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt Medical School from 1931-1953.

Bacteriologist Roy Avery and pathologist William Demonbreun study what appears to be a pathology slide.

Roy C. Avery was born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Connecticut State College, B.S., Massachusetts State College, M.S., and received the Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1928. Dr. Avery taught at Vanderbilt Medical School from…

Photographic portrait of Rudolph Alvin Light. Rudolph Alvin Light received his Ph.B. in English and archeology from Yale University in 1931. He then enrolled at the University of Southern California, where, amidst the study of physics and chemistry,…

Photographic portrait of Rudolph H. Kampmeier. Rudolph H. Kampmeier (1898-1990) was a Vanderbilt professor, physician, author, and editor. He was a true leader in American medicine and a leading authority on physical diagnosis and sexually…

Samuel S. Riven was a superb physician with more than a half century of service to his patients and the Department of Medicine of Vanderbilt University.

Photographic portrait of Sara Katherine Layton Archer. Dr. Archer became a member of Vanderbilt's faculty in 1969. In 1971 Dr. Archer was chosen as one of the outstanding educators. In 1972 she was chosen to become the new dean of the Vanderbilt…

Sarah H. Sell (1913-2012) was a pediatrician, author, and professor. She is an authority on immunization and is a researcher on infectious diseases of children. Dr. Sell devoted much of her professional career to the development of a vaccine to…