Kenneth J. W. Taylor, MD, PhD

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on a farm near Bridgeport, Conn, on September 1, 1898. He died on a farm near Cumberland, Md, on November 19, 2002. He was educated at Columbia University and Columbia P & S Medical School in New York, NY. He completed his internship at City Hospital in New York and his radiology residency at Mount Sinai Medical School (New York, NY). After residency, he opened a private practice in New York with two internists, Dr Herman Halpern and Dr Daniel Poll. Soon after, he was named director of radiology at The Bronx Hospital and The Harlem Hospital in New York. During the 1930s and 1940s, Dr Snow wrote numerous articles about roentgenology in obstetrics and gynecology, radiology of the chest, and radiology of the small bowel. He is most known for developing a pelvimetry ruler used to measure a pregnant woman’s pelvis and the fetal head to see if she could deliver vaginally. In 1951, Dr Snow moved to Shreveport, La, and became director of the radiology department at the Shreveport Veteran’s Hospital. In 1953, he became director of radiology at Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport; this institution is now known as Louisiana State University Medical School. In 1958, he moved to St Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he worked as director of radiology at the island hospital. In 1959, he moved to Montgomery, Ala, and worked as director of the OPD Radiology Clinic at the regional Veteran’s Center. He retired in 1961. However, he continued to read scientific material and wrote articles concerning original ideas. Dr Snow was an honorary member of the Texas Medical Society, the Columbia-South America Radiology Society, the Panama-Central America Radiology Society, and the Detroit Radiology Society. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology. He was a member of the Radiological Society of North America. Dr Snow enjoyed art and won first place for a painting he created at the San Francisco physician’s art exhibition. He also enjoyed classical music, traveling, and fishing. He will be remembered for laying the foundation of modern radiology. He is survived by a son, Paul; a daughter-in-law, Faye; three grandchildren, Michael, Naomi, and Wendy; and three greatgranddaughters, Rachel, Michelle, and Whitney. He was preceded in death by his wife, Amy; a daughter, Barbara; and a grandson, Gary.