Prof. W. B. Cannon, For.Mem.R.S

Abstract

BY the deash on October 2, 1945, of Walter Bradford Cailnon, the United States and the world lost one who, for a whole generation, had been recognized as a great leader in his own chosen scientific field of physiology. Cannon was born on October 19, 1871, at Prairie du Chien, Wis., and received his schooling at Milwaukee and St. Paul, Minn. Entering Harvard in 1892, he remained with that University and its Medical School until his retirement in 1942 from the chair of physiology, to which he had been appointed in 1906; so that his association with Harvard, as student, graduate, instructor and professor, extended over just half a century.