Roswell Park (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roswell Park (surgeon)

American surgeon

Date of Birth: 04-May-1852

Place of Birth: Pomfret, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1914

Profession: surgeon

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Roswell Park (May 4, 1852 – February 15, 1914) was an American physician, best known for starting Gratwick Research Laboratory in 1898, which is now known as Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
In 1900, the Gratwick family of Buffalo helped to finance Park's laboratory with a $25,000 donation in memory of William Henry Gratwick, a patient of Park's.
Park was also a professor of surgery at the University at Buffalo Medical School and a surgeon at Buffalo General Hospital.When Park was thirty-one he went to Buffalo, New York in 1883.
He came from Chicago where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University in 1876.
He received his B.A.
in 1872 and M.A.
in 1875 from Racine College in Racine, Wisconsin.
He then went on to finish his Doctor of Medicine studies at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1876.
Park received an honorary M.A.
from Harvard University in 1895 and an honorary LL.D.
from Yale University.
Over the years he served on many boards, both national and international.
By 1914, the total number of textbooks, articles, and monographs that he wrote reached 167.