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Unidentified people in Turner Construction hard hats, posing in front of the new hospital building.

Vanderbilt staff prepare food in the kitchen

Paul W. Sanger received his secondary education at Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Upon graduation from the University of Oklahoma in 1928, he entered Vanderbilt University Medical School, where he received his M.D. in 1931. Sanger did…

Dr. Lamson was chairman of the Department of Pharmacology from 1925-1952.

Photographic portrait of Paul Francis Hahn. Paul Francis Hahn received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT and his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Rochester. He pioneered the use of radioisotopes in cancer research while on…

Paul Dudley Lamson is widely regarded for his pivotal research in the development of the remedy for hookworm disease.

Photographic portrait of Paul Dewitt. Dr. Paul DeWitt completed his undergraduate work and medical training at Vanderbilt University. He was a Founder's Medalist in the School of Medicine in 1905. A prominent Nashville physician and surgeon, DeWitt…

The identity of this man is unknown, but he is possibly William Gunter, Jr., or his brother Albert. Both men were autopsy technicians employed by the Department of Pathology.

Dr. Owen Wilson was a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt Medical School and had a large pediatric practice in Nashville. He was the author of The Care and Feeding of Southern Babies: A Guide for Mothers (1920). 

Dr. Bloch, who had previously been a research fellow, was instructor of bacteriology at Vanderbilt for a short time in 1937. Like other talented pathologists in these years (Alice and Eugene Woodruff, William Demonbreun), Bloch was quickly recruited…